Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neo’s price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-500 bump. But those prices have yet to take effect at Amazon, where Apple
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and architects envisioned their works would remain standing & useful
"Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?"
This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The artist and union organizer sweeps the NYC primary, and what makes an antiquities looter loot?
From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine - by Susanna Crossman Read on Aeon
Why it's important to cultivate resilience and curiosity as a writer.
Look around the room you’re in. There are dozens of electrically powered devices, each waiting for you to request their assistance. A toaster, six lights, an oven, the ice maker, stereo, TV, microwave… It’s a very long list. Silent and ubiquitous. Of course, electricity didn’t
Thinking back to the many childhood grocery-store trips made with their parents, Americans of a certain age will remember nothing so vividly as the Weekly World News. It always stood out on the checkout stand’s impulse-buy rack, in part because of its adherence to stark yet
Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons We may be conditioned to offering an opinion at the push of a button, but before venturing on the question of whether we can, or should, separate the art from the artist, it seems ever prudent to ask,
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
Good headline from the NYT for a change: President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool .
The Colombian-American painter discusses his new body of work, the complexity of queerness, and the reprieve of the analog.
This is a five-minute video of Andy Warhol eating a Burger King hamburger accompanied by Heinz ketchup. The scene is part of a film done by Jorgen Leth called 66 Scenes from America . Leth had his assistant buy some burgers and directly advised him to buy some in halfway
This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.
Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.
"The Man Who Stole the Gods" author Matthew Campbell discusses Western collectors' rapacious hunger for ancient Cambodian art and the sheer violence it took to satiate it.
"Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?"
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated. Halley’s Comet came around in 1066 and it’s likely Eilmer of Malmesbury saw a different comet in 1018, not Halley’s in 989.
The Mamdani-backed assemblywoman and artist is poised to represent "Commie Corridor" in Congress.
Hundreds of residents turned out in a demonstration of solidarity, resilience, and togetherness. 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 23,000-Square-Foot
How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People . No surprise: it became much more negative, less affirming/protective and more skeptical/restrictive.
"Nearly a year after the devastating July 4 floods, Hill Country communities are still grieving and rebuilding, while hoping to welcome visitors back to the Guadalupe."
Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes featuring elevators, including Speed, The Shining, Drive, Mad Men, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs, and many more.
Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election”.
Blessedly, despite the corn sweat, the city’s gallery and museum scene is eager to provide fresh work for the Midwestern mind.
Those who complete a poster art activity from artist Rich Tu will get free admission to the NYC institution.
Artist Rich Tu offers his tips to created an art poster in the new initiative co-organized by Mayor Mamdani and the NYC museum.
Exhibition of Pratt Digital Arts alumni explores technology, ecology, and emerging forms of intelligence.
