Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar

The little-known story of a stolen Picasso that once belonged to the Guggenheim Museum, Zeitz MOCAA’s new leader, and the discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck.

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Short term dumb, long term smart

Culture provides scaffolding, and learning happens over time. The result is that we’re each capable of extraordinary feats. People can fly planes, ski down mountains, figure out how to use Photoshop or a solve a crossword puzzle. But… Most people only exhibit this skill when

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Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff's Breathing Moons

The artist duo — who go by "Relational" — explore the unseen forces that bind us to the universe.

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New Digital Archive Honors Gaza Journalists Killed by Israel

The project developed by the Writers Against the War on Gaza serves as a digital memorial for the around 240 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023.

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How Love Comes to You

We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is that its imagination is always greater than that of the living — life keeps surprising us, keeps reminding us that all too often the wildest

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Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)

At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working four jobs to pay my way through college. On October 23, 2006, I began sharing my discoveries —

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The Artist Mapping Knoxville’s Art Scene With Wood and Wire

Three years ago, Lauren Farkas sketched a plan to see exhibitions during the city’s monthly art walk. Now, she crafts eclectic maps for each event to make the art scene more accessible.

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11-Year-Old Boy Sets Guinness Record for World’s Youngest Curator

Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in rural Illinois at just nine years old

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A New Book Celebrates More Than 250 Trailblazing Women Photographers Across 200 Years

“If ‘greatness’ has long been defined by visibility and remembrance, then the continued documentation and celebration of women’s photographic practice is not only relevant but essential.” Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and

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A View From the Easel

“The literal environment outside of my studio is the mobile home park I used to play in as a child in the ’80s.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...

Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run . “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”

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Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero

You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly. The character ⁊ appears in Unicode as U+204A, but is better known as the “Tironian et”: the “et” is Latin for “and,” and the “Tironian” comes

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