100+ Artists Threaten Legal Action Over Inclusion in Biennale Awards
The Biennale told Hyperallergic that although withdrawing artists are included on the ballot, “these votes will not be considered.”
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Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS....
Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS. “Haiku is a work of generative music that builds its own sound from nothing each time you open it, and never plays the same way twice — a record that exists only while it is playing.”
Remembering Alan Saret, Julio Le Parc, and Hilde Lynn Helphenstein
This week, we honor a postminimalist sculptor, a Pop Art legend, and the satirist behind “Jerry Gogosian.”
Edward Hopper’s Distinctly American Solitude
American bombast is, more than anything, a mask, which Hopper understood well.
Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: “Fuck the Empire!”
Now that Andor has been out for a while, showrunner Tony Gilroy is free to speak his mind on what the show was all about. I mean, it was pretty clear to the audience, but now he can say his piece. Andor won a Peabody Award and at the awards ceremony, Gilroy gave the following
Wildfires and War Rage in Shawn Huckins’ Theatrical Paintings
'Slow Burn' presents a suite of landscapes, each veiled by curtains. 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 Wildfires and War Rage in Shawn Huckins’
“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van...
“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s seventeenth-century painting in which he spells out his own name with caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best of them.”
Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.
"How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country."
Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is...
Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is delivering hydro-generated electricity into NYC : “1,250 megawatts of clean energy directly into New York City’s power grid”. That’s around 20% of the city’s total electric load, now clean.
Ruth Borgenicht Links Thousands of Ceramic Rings in Elaborate Chainmail Sculptures
The New Jersey-based artist's works hang tapestry-like on the wall or unfurl into three-dimensional biomorphic forms. 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
Announcing the 2026 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows
Designed to support mid-career Minnesota artists, the fellowship provides each recipient with a $25,000 stipend, professional development, a residency, and more.
The Three Ways to Make a Living
Well, this is kinda depressing, courtesy of Jason Zweig’s father : There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3) Tell the truth to those who want
TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000...
TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000 was a debadged and stripped down 2-door version of the Nissan March, with the smallest engine, an automatic, steel wheels, and A/C, available in one color: white.”
Made in the USA
"Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves."
Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude
Remembering Julio Le Parc, a dispatch from art shows in abandoned homes in Seattle, and more.
Professionals know how to talk about it
We evolved words on top of our primordial ability to have feelings. Words allow us to be specific, to understand a situation more completely and to teach. Our hunches and feelings still matter, but professionals choose to be able to talk about their work. Learn the words and
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one is perfect. That goes more so for the releases of what I call the “heroic age of the album,” which enjoyed its zenith around the late seventies. Not coincidentally, 1979 was the year that Pink Floyd put out
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut in his autobiography Palm Sunday. His answer? His master’s thesis in anthropology for the University of Chicago, “which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun.” The elegant
The Three Elements of the Good Life
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship."
The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism
"With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged."
Meticulously Detailed Natural Specimens by Marisa Aragón Ware Emerge from Paper
"Because paper is such an everyday material, there’s something especially powerful about transforming it into something unexpected." 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
15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more.
Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition
“We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” one of the organizers of “Once Removed” told Hyperallergic.
Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction
"Sleeping By the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) is the last in a series of monumental portraits of Sue Tilley in resting postures.
The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including...
The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including Inaccessible Island Rail, Macaroni Penguin, Morepork, Chocolate Boobook, Dickcissel, Carunculated Caracara, and Resplendent Quetzal.
Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97
While his contemporaries focused on abstraction’s retinal possibilities, he viewed the liberation of the spectator as parallel to society's.
Met Museum Announces Free Memberships for NY SNAP Recipients
Millions of residents across New York State are now eligible for the "Explorer" program, which offers perks like streamlined entry and special previews.
Life With Locked-in Syndrome: ‘Despite Everything, You Are Alive’
"Matt Rudd has remarkable conversations with three Britons who, after life-changing accidents, have fully active minds but cannot move or speak, and can communicate only via the blink of an eye."