Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project

Elina Chauvet says her "Red Shoes" installation was staged in Bucharest without her knowledge or name.

If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations...

If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations Resigned, We’d Have No One Left to Govern the Country . “It’s naïve to imagine the government can continue to function without the tireless dedication of our best and brightest rapists.”

These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

Kenneth Tam, Alina Tenser, Sheida Soleimani, Leeza Meksin, and American Artist are among the 223 individuals receiving the annual award.

Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings

You know who else wanted to construct gaudy buildings in his own image? Here’s Timothy Ryback on Adolf Hitler’s obsession “with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery”. The new annex, connected to the chancellery by a marble corridor hung with crystal

This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...

This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable but simple browser for iOS .

“ The internet known within China is a very...

“ The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large . It is censored, regulated and structured quite differently. It is controlled and managed, rather than organic and sprawling.”

Art Problems: Do I Need to Go to Art Fairs?

Are the fairs worth the back pain and steep ticket prices? Paddy Johnson has the answer.

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

"Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf."

Nikyle Begay Resurrects Century-Old Diné Weavings

As an artist and shepherd, Begay facilitates their own creative process, from breeding and shearing to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.

Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings

For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows . His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana , R.E.M. , The Pixies, Björk , Depeche Mode , Liz Phair , Sonic Youth , The Cure , Phish , Fugazi , and so many more. With the

LR Vandy’s Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation

For London-based artist LR Vandy, the layered legacies of labor, shipping, and trade undergird a distinctive sculptural practice. 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

On the network effect of the weekend : “The...

On the network effect of the weekend : “The essential characteristic of the weekend is not just the having of a day off, but rather that other people have the day off.”

Beloved CUNY Social Practice Art Program to Shut Down

The artist-led project will shutter in February as co-directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette depart their academic posts.

Politics After Literacy

“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”

A Collection of Transit Tickets

A brand designer’s “compendium of transit tickets” from around the world. Many of these are from the 90s and 00s. Design inspiration for daaaaays. (via meanwhile ) Tags: design

Duchamp in New York

MoMA opens its latest blockbuster, Jasper Johns keeps looking, Aruna D’Souza responds to Josh Kline, and much more.

40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge

The photography festival’s anniversary retrospective embodies the spirit of freedom and internationalism present since its founding.

The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...

The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today, there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it simply isn’t that profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40 percent of Americans by income.”

Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name

For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy corrects the record.

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own retail store in San Francisco . The bot has hired a pair of human employees and “has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras”.

A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

Ukrainian artist Jonko "George" Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his one-room residence into a vibrant environment of "memoryscapes." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7

“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...

“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic places — Communist people’s republics, Gulf monarchies — where only death could pry power from the ruling elders. American gerontocracy is exceptional for being freely elected .”

An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....

An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS . “The answer is in some ways simpler than you’d expect, and in other ways more complex. GPS is fundamentally a translation tool: it converts time into distance.”

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

A thought-provoking book by the dissident artist, Trump's latest offensive meme, and artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer dies at 46.

You’ve lived this life before

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly - by Mark Higgins Read on Aeon

Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .

Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.

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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More

The Pacific Palisades fire of January 25 destroyed much of that coastal Los Angeles neighborhood, but it somehow spared the Charles and Ray Eames house. Anyone who’s paid it a visit, or at least pored over the many photos of it in existence, knows that it’s more than a