Augustus was seen as a descendant of the gods who would go on to redefine authority. New research posits that his rule paved the way for Jesus
I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery site) that kinda kicks ass: NYT Cooking is now a separate source (which you can filter by). The Rigatoni With White Bolognese recipe is a favorite of mine. 🤌
"Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief."
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Physics offered me a sense of order and purpose. But when life got messy I realised it had a much deeper insight to give - by Zahaan Bharmal Read on Aeon
A family road trip along the North Korean border, with a Chinese father and his estranged daughter, plastic bags of food, and an 81-year-old grandmother who refuses to wear a seat belt.
Dani Bensky explains why the museum must drop Leon Black from its board. Also: The Vatican is serious about protecting artists from AI.
This is one of the most famous comedy bits of all time: But why is it funny? The disconnect between experiencing it and explaining it represents one of the challenges of teaching. It’s also at the heart of leadership, marketing and culture. Design, good taste, genre,
There’s a decent chance you’ve heard at least a couple of tracks from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach. But when was the last time you put on Switched-On Rock, Switched-On Country, Switched-On Santa, or Switched-On Bacharach? More likely than not, you’ve never even heard of those
What do Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, and Modest Mussorgsky have in common? They stand alone among their peers for their darkly humorous sensibilities, fascination with the grotesque, imaginative takes on cultural traditions, and a predisposition for the proto-surreal. Like the
Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed he has a two-hour interview with Elizabeth Holmes that he’s considering releasing . “Did I have any reason to believe that she was a fraud? I did not. Did that change as time went on? It did.”
Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out : “Kevin Bacon is not the center of Hollywood. In fact, he never has been, and almost certainly never will be.”
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
Romuald Hazoumé encircles plastic jugs with feathers, netting, paintbrushes, and other found materials. 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 Found
A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive will be auctioned off early next year , including Jack Torrance’s axe & the sisters’ blue dresses from The Shining, Kubrick’s director’s chair, and a chess set owned by the director.
The Moving Image Archive is a collection of over 120,000 clips from almost 2300 archival films drawn from public domain collections. The internet is full of forgotten films, and this archive is a growing library of that collection. When synthetic footage can now fabricate the
It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical . “It was disappointing how easily money turned a lot of them into sudden conservatives, full of right-wing doctrine about bootstraps and the fantasy of a black capitalist utopia…”
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food ” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations.
A triennale across seven cities expands on Pope Leo XIV's message that artificial intelligence models “lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective” necessary to create art.
Her flickering, hollow, and bandaged forms trace histories embodied across generations.
Instead of leaving the South behind, the polymath artist carried it into her writings, zines, paintings, and “shack sculptures” that echo the architecture of her childhood.
Amid a cost-of-living crisis and the closure of local arts organizations, some are turning to different models to foster community, from nonprofit status to retail businesses.
Her environmental paintings ask: What can we do to change our destiny? What effect can we have on the place we inhabit?
Instead of the slick stream of internet and AI imagery, the moving pictures projected onto a 31-foot-tall column are insistently material.
The proposed ballot measure would ensure that the office is immune from administrative overhauls.
See 300+ unique works by Marcel Duchamp, including the permanently installed masterpiece “Étant donnés”, exclusively at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turns out to be really fascinating . For decades, one man was blamed for bringing AIDS to America. But the “Patient Zero”
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Filmmaker Sandro Bocci brings us up close with coral reefs and their striking array of color, texture, and pattern. 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