Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The most popular Shakespearean roles for women in the tragic repertoire were Romeo and Hamlet, but women also played Macbeth, Cardinal Wolsey, Shylock, Richard III, and Iago…”
“I wish I had a vegetable garden next to my studio and a pig walking around in my workspace.”
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was better at making paintings in the style of Jackson Pollack . “The researchers found that the kids’ paintings made in this manner resembled genuine Pollacks more than did those from adult painters.”
Inoue’s striking characters' small scale belies their infinite inner emotional worlds. 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 Restrained Emotions Simmer
"The Congolese rumba pioneer Docteur Nico helped define the sound of African decolonization—and became one of the great visionaries of the electric guitar."
From April 30 to May 3, discover 27 galleries and 17 special projects spotlighting artists from across the world at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn.
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death of every woman in the US killed by a man . “Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?”
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, kinetic machine sculptures that move under their own power along the beach. Some of the most recent versions are quick fast and can even tow humans along behind them.
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line
“Sync music” has become the soundtrack to our lives — whether we realize it or not.
We all want longevity without compromising on quality of life. This 87-year-old achieves both with a daily running habit - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
A sneak peek and honest impressions of the newly expanded Lower East Side institution, an Iranian artist's view of the war from the diaspora, and Asia Week highlights.
As the 18th-century war between mechanism and romanticism returns, we face a new question: can we build artificial souls? - by Peter Wolfendale Read on Aeon
"A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."
Tonight, when you’re off the clock, what will you listen to, watch or read? I imagine that most of us would agree that this is a free choice. To watch a silly video on YouTube, read a book on Greek philosophy from the library or scroll your feeds. We have time (surprisingly
Jim Jarmusch—the director of Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and Dead Man—recently stepped into The Criterion Collection closet to share the films that shaped his aesthetic sensibility. In the next three minutes, Jarmusch pays tribute to a box set of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
"Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought."
Hyperallergic’s editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution’s expanded building and inaugural exhibition.
This is maybe the best baseball catch you’ll ever see. Or the most fun one anyway.
Miuccia Prada is worth $4.8 billion. How good of a person do you expect her to be? “I got to thinking about all this the other day while mulling the curious, oft-repeated fact that Miuccia Prada was, in her 1960s youth, a Communist.”
This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.
Across the city, exhibitions, auctions, and lectures converge to celebrate art history, material culture, and centuries-old traditions spanning from Persia to Japan.
“Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster , especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research.”
Since the war began, I feel as if I am living inside a shadow. It has no physical form, yet it follows me everywhere.
A man allegedly broke into an exhibition space in Seattle, shattered a Dale Chihuly installation, and tried to stab a guard with a glass shard.
A playable CSS-only Super Mario Bros game . Wow.
Moore's solo exhibition 'Theater' continues at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta through March 21. 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 Nostalgia and Decay
A generator for VHS slipcovers, cassette tape inserts, CD labels & inserts. You can paste in Spotify URLs, search for movies, etc. Really cool and fun.
The chess program available on Delta Air Lines’ seatback screens is an ELO monster that can beat almost all opponents on easy mode. This guy used a series of increasingly powerful bots to see just how good the Delta chess bot is. Can it beat a grandmaster-level bot? (via clive
It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing. But despite what a crucible of our emotional and spiritual lives
"If you can fall in love again and again ... if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked."
What does it feel like to be struck by lightning? “Some have to relearn simple things, things they’ve done their whole life — how to read, how to sing, how to ride a bike.”