Thieves Snatch $4.6M Diamond Necklace From Viennese Museum
The two thieves paid entry before stealing the 673- white diamond necklace that once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt.
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The Belgian Exhibition That Strives to "Decenter" the West
With two contradictory briefs — to both decenter Europe and show Bruges’s centrality in international networks — an exhibition on the Belgian city is already off to a bumpy start.
Demolition of Georgian Architectural Landmark Sparks Outcry
Civilians, architects, and members of the preservationist community are advocating to save the complex known locally as the Rike Tubes in the capital city Tbilisi.
How to Be Reborn Each Day
"Please try to go to hell frequently because you will find the light there."
What I Got Wrong About Krasner and Pollock
I had assumed that loving an artist meant disappearing a little, and I had assumed that Lee Krasner had been forced to shrink, too.
The Art World Reacts to Yayoi Kusama’s Passing
Artists, designers, galleries, and museums have shared homages to the legacy of the pop icon, who died on August 14.
September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Time to brush up that artist's statement! 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 September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for
Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway
"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."
Your Guide to NYC Art Shows This Fall
We round up the must-see art exhibitions around the city this fall so you don’t have to. Plus: How did the police confuse a sculpture for a person?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.
What’s next?
For fifteen or twenty years, this question is relentlessly answered, whether or not we ask it. After we learn fractions, the teacher moves on to decimals. After we read O’Connor, we’re handed Faulkner. In music history, Debussy follows Brahms. Chemistry after biology. It
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn’t been written by humans, but generated by artificial
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"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."