Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens , i.e. “choosing what to ignore, learning how to resist low-quality and misleading but cognitively attractive information, and deciding where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities”. 💬 Join the discussion on
“There was an awful lot going on in the world, and I didn’t just want to sit there and draw straight lines,” the artist said of her turn away from abstraction.
"A man with an obscure claim to a royal fortune made a deal to help regain his crown. It cost him more than he could imagine."
From Alex Ito’s shifting mirrors to Laura Anderson Barbata’s oceanic drag, each piece in this show weaves together themes of identity, protection, and transformation.
The SMU DataArts ranking looks at metrics including government funding for the arts and revenue of nonprofit arts organizations.
Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.
An exhibition at The Met, a Chinatown bookstore highlighting local stories, an independent arts market, and much more for your Lunar New Year plans.
I finished the last half of Shōgun , James Clavell’s 1200-page 1975 historical novel, on my recent vacation, riveted the entire time. I loved reading it and possibly enjoyed it more than Hulu’s TV series (which is saying something). The TV version hews pretty closely to the
“The best film I could make was one that only I could tell as his son,” Tadashi Nakamura told Hyperallergic about legendary director Robert Nakamura.
We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid . “DO: Find the people who are already doing the work, and follow their lead. DON’T: Assume that you know what people want or need.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.
For the Cornwall-based photographer, plants take on otherworldly dimensions when rendered in unexpected hues. 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 caffeine calculator that tells you how much of your favorite beverage would kill you. “287.4 cans of Pepsi is a lethal dose.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Visual History . A coffee table book about one of my foundational cultural touchstones? Yes please! 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"The inside story of the teenager whose 'swatting' calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down."
For the final video in their current series, Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting tackle one of the fundamental questions in filmmaking: where do you put the camera? I was especially struck by Greta Gerwig’s comments about camera movement in two of her films:
Every Star Trek Movie, Ranked . I think the top 5 here are correct, although you could maybe swap them around a bit. I might put First Contact ahead of The Undiscovered Country for instance. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The artist develops his own glazes to mimic textures similar to lichen and miss. 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 Matias Karsikas Merges Diverse
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers . “[Mark Zuckerberg’s] cringe moments drip through more sparingly but, when they do, my body tries to turn inside out at my bellybutton.”
Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet , the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements. LOLA data was captured by a polar orbiting laser altimeter. Think of it like
"What was once a late-night cable TV sideshow has grown into a culture-shifting sport that counts President Trump as a fan. Inside White's big, brash, competition-crushing company."
I’d love to know where people are directing their giving these days. I regularly support the National Network of Abortion Funds , the ACLU , the Transgender Law Center , and my local food shelf. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt . “Once in a while, though, they’ll find a specimen that shares a timeline with Beowulf, the Phoenician alphabet or even early math.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Remnants of decor, plumbing, and other signs of human habitation form the basis of the Vienna-based artist's ongoing series, 'There Was a Home.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way stop lights are controlled. But computers aren’t the same as the LLMs that run on them. Claude.ai is
Los Angeles is hardly a city known for its varied weather, but if one lives there long enough, one does become highly attuned to its many subtleties. (Granted, some of the local phenomena involved, like the notorious Santa Ana winds, can produce far-from-subtle effects.) The
We credit the Bauhaus school, founded by German architect Walter Gropius in 1919, for the aesthetic principles that have guided so much modern design and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The school’s relationships with artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky,
From the Paleontological Research Institution, The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change , “the single best available resource for teachers on climate change”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →