Is Sexy Art Back, or Is It Just Me?
From Willem de Kooning’s miserable nudes to Alexandra Barth’s hot and bothered architecture, sex is in the air in Chicago.
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The Zen Mona Lisa
A review of an ancient Chinese ink painting takes an art critic on a journey through his own past.
Caribbean Surrealism and Ancestral Memory Merge in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s Lush Portraits
Tattooed with verdant foliage, the central figure in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s portraits emerges from the plant life that surrounds her. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per
Wexner Center for the Arts to Keep Name Despite Founder’s Epstein Ties
Hundreds had urged Ohio State University to remove Les Wexner's name from campus buildings over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky
I love Taiwanese artist Kuang-Yu Tsui ’s 1997 conceptual art piece The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky but I couldn’t really tell you what it means. Something about the way people are bombarded with advertisements for consumer goods? I also couldn’t help but think of the iOS
Six Stolen Picassos Found Under Pile of Clothes in French Home
Seven suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the prints from L’Amandier restaurant in the south of France.
Maintenance Futures
"Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?"
Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book...
Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book about the world’s largest data-center hub in Northern Virginia . “Forests have disappeared. Empty fields have become enormous buildings.”
Only Known Manuscript of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Could Fetch $10M at Auction
The public will be able to view the handwritten final draft of the iconic speech at Christie's New York before it goes under the hammer in January.
Amy Liu Explores Light and Dark through Glitz, Mystique, and Opera
In her solo exhibition 'Pearled Chiaroscuro' at Harper's, Liu taps into the Renaissance in more ways than one. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Amy
Carl Sagan on How to Live with the Unknown
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity...
Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made . “The phone in your pocket is several orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the computers used for the Apollo mission. One AirPod could easily calculate a path to the moon.”
A YouTuber discovered that most videos contain inaudible...
A YouTuber discovered that most videos contain inaudible background audio that can be geolocated by using airplane flight data . Incredible. I wonder how long the NSA has known about this though…
Andy Warhol's Habibi Phase in Kuwait
Raed Yassin's exhibition “Warhol of Arabia” reimagines the pop artist's 1977 visit to the Gulf country and a bygone era in the Middle East.
Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition
Ok, I’m gonna use the word gobsmacking here because I think it’s completely appropriate. This image of an inkjet printer laying down ink on a piece of paper is gobsmacking. Like what?! You can check out photographer Ole Bielfeldt’s behind-the-scenes process on Instagram ; he
Dark Forestry. “What defense against this onslaught of...
Dark Forestry . “What defense against this onslaught of talking machines? Craft, and ‘the nobility of a day’s work’, once-proud heraldry against inconsiderate design and careless release cycles, are threadbare banners in winter winds.”
When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.
"From childbirth to miscarriages, women’s health care in the state has become increasingly dangerous."
A trip to upside-down world
Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The People Against the Arch
Protesters in DC roast the Arc de Trump, plus the Whitney Museum announces the next curators of its blockbuster biennial.
Equality talk
In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon
Restrictive design
Design of any kind requires empathy. If you’re making it for yourself, it’s a hobby. Everything else is for someone else. Great designers know who it’s for. And the design is for them, not for the designer. Annie Jean-Baptiste teaches us about restrictive design. This is what
Explore the Reading List for Harvard’s Humanities 10: The “Brutal” Humanities Class That’s Suddenly in High Demand
There are plenty of good reasons a student might want to go to Harvard. One is its long history, at least by American standards; another is the formidable accomplishments of the professors hired to teach there. But on some level, a teenager looking to come up in the world — or,
“Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Life
In 1994, Charles Bukowski was buried in a Los Angeles cemetery, beneath a simple gravestone. The stone memorializes the poet’s name. It recites his dates of birth and death, but adds the symbol of a boxer between the two, suggesting his life was a struggle. And it adds the very
The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she...
The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she listens to is heavy metal from 1986. It’s the year she still lives in. She wanted me to tell this story.” This is a tough read. (CW: rape, family trauma)