The artist's solo exhibition 'Vanishing Point' opens soon at Almine Rech in Brussels. 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 Hans Op de Beeck Taps into
The demand comes after a member of Smotrich's party shattered a monument in a Palestinian village with a sledgehammer.
George Washington Carver is remembered as an innovative agricultural scientist, but his overlooked artistic work places him in a lineage of Black American natural dyeing traditions.
Artists and activists condemned the National Park Service’s dismantling of "Blue” (2019), calling it an example of “Trump’s continued vandalism of the nation’s artistic treasures.”
"For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another."
Audubon Photography Awards runs parallel opportunities for photographers in the U.S. and Canada and in Chile and Colombia. 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
Our staff reporter, a die-hard Snoopy fan, got emotional at "Snoopy in Style."
Clio Sze To paints impressionistic pieces that capture the feeling of a contemplative hour spent on foot. 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 Dappled
"The jury sentenced Pitchford to death."
The shared origins of Liberian and Gullah basketry, artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney’s 350-mile durational performance, and a massive zine library hidden in a Texas apartment.
“Why are you taking this class?” That seems like a fair question. After tenth grade or so, it’s a choice, after all. One honest answer is, “I have to get a good grade to get to where I want to go.” That means certification, compliance, regurgitation. It means enrollment in the
At the height of their productivity as Beatles, neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon could read or write music notation. Clearly it didn’t keep them from making a cultural impact, and as with so much else in life, they regarded it humorously. As McCartney has said, they used
Would anyone in their right mind sign up for a job that had a high risk of mortality/disability? Or a job where red hot metal is being hurled directly at your face? Back in the 1920s this was the lot of the men who built New York’s skyline, the men who constructed the Chrysler
"If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world."
"...only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited."
Jamelle Bouie : The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American
Carmen Lomas Garza’s tender scenes of Chicanx community, Huguette Caland’s life in lines, Indigenous artists on fire and stewardship, photography of trans mutual aid, and more.
Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer . I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
The Morgan Library & Museum presents “Hujar:Contact,” currently on view through October 25.
Ashley Percival imagines fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as
"The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible."
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We live everything as it comes, without warning."
2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey . “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
As part of “Mule’s Passage,” artists Z Behl and Kim Moloney are paddling six hours a day and camping for five weeks.
The piece, which read “8647” in yellow corn kernels, was taken down at the artist’s request after she was threatened and doxxed by right-wing agitators.
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail . “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”