Falling in Love With Vintage Gay Films
What it’s like to “rediscover” vintage gay adult films from the 1970s and 1980s in a moment of state repression.
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“When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh...
“When South Morningside Primary School girls football team won the prestigious Edinburgh Schools cup last year, they were presented with a small plastic trophy. It paled into comparison with the large, grand trophy given to the winning boys team… ”
Art Problems: How Do I Get Into the Whitney Biennial?
Conventional wisdom says there isn’t much you can do, but Paddy Johnson knows that’s not the whole story.
Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses...
Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses more water than nature can reliably replace, and when the damage to the natural assets that store and filter that water, such as aquifers and wetlands, becomes hard to reverse”.
Playful, Enigmatic Narratives Shape Yuko Shimizu’s Action-Packed Illustrations
Playful idiosyncrasies and bouts of whimsy bubble up in the Brooklyn-based artist's works. 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 Playful, Enigmatic
Fra Angelico Etched the Divine in Stone
The veiled symbolism of the artist's marble and stones has largely flown under the radar, but these mystical depths are too profound to miss out on.
“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured...
“Most technologies are like guns. They tend to get aggregated and captured by those who already have a lot. Technology, in other words, generally exhibits preferential attachment to power .”
“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is...
“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child . His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him.”
Why Did the Rubber Chicken Cross the Road?
"At 38, I began to feel the creep of the millennial midlife crisis. So I decided to break the strangest world record I could find."
How to Become a Tree
"Many people today want to commit their remains to rejuvenating the planet. But are these green deaths just greenwashing?"
The Language of Flowers Meets Queer Desire in Kris Knight’s Tender Portraiture
In 'Green Carnation,' Kris Knight presents a collection of diptychs stemming from Victorian-era floriology. 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 The
Edward Zutrau Was a Chromatic Rebel
He combined the reductive strain of Abstract Expressionism with the principles and style of Japanese ink painting, for something uniquely his own.
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage...
The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972) .
New York Academy of Art Presents “Chubb Fellows & Friends”
Featuring past fellows alongside a broader circle of artists linked to the Academy, the show brings together work by Danica Lundy, Dana Schutz, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and more.
“A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall...
“ A flock of ring-necked parakeets that were filmed feasting on the wall of a 19th Century barn were echoing Amazonian feeding habits…near Welwyn in Hertfordshire .”
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."
Pam Connolly Tenderly Weaves Family Snapshots on Vintage Potholder Looms
The Hudson Valley-based artist channels an interest in the relationship between the imaginary and the real. 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 Pam
The immortality paradox
Most people live as though death is undesirable. But would immortality be a blessing – or an interminable curse? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
How to Piss Off Trump
A mysterious public artwork on the National Mall, the Philadelphia Art Museum's ongoing rebrand debacle, new Louvre heist footage, and Yoko Ono's relentless positivity.
Identity violation and pricing
Why do books and records have standard pricing? You’d think that a record from Miles Davis or Patricia Barber would cost more than one from the local garage band. Economists tie themselves into knots trying to explain why wine and handbags have such wide price variation, but
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
Buckminster Fuller was, in many ways, a twenty-first century man: an achievement in itself, considering he was born in the nineteenth century and died in the twentieth. In fact, it may actually count as his defining achievement. For all the inventions presented as revolutionary
Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes
?si=4AEj95O5wdpShG3I FYI: Sesame Street has released on YouTube more than 140 full episodes from past seasons. On the Sesame Street Classics channel, you’ll find some iconic episodes, starting with the very first 1969 broadcast. Watch it above. Also on that same channel you can
How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering
Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world more — the other word for which is kindness — is largely a matter of deepening our
Shocking New Louvre Heist Footage Released to the Public
The video shows how the thieves made it in and out of the museum's Apollo Gallery almost seamlessly with the nation's crown jewels.
A Rotoscoped Film Underscores How Fantasy Is the Only Reprieve in Solitary Confinement
"Inside, The Valley Sings" is a devastating look at solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. 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 A Rotoscoped Film