Tracey Emin’s Therapy Art
The founder of Art in Odd Places talks about the co-opting of social practice art. Plus, Tracey Emin’s cult of the self, Frank O’Hara’s international world, and more.
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The end of the content shortage
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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete
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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
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Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie...
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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
"Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil."
Women Are Being Abandoned by Their Partners on Hiking Trails. What’s Behind ‘Alpine Divorce’?
"As stories of men leaving their dates in ‘sketchy situations’ go viral, experts say these incidents could stem from big egos and poor communication."
Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self
The YBA artist spearheaded contemporary art's trend of coupling extreme self-introspection with relentless self-promotion.
Field Notes from a Body
"As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe."
Lebanese Artist Ali Sbeity Reportedly Killed in Israeli Strike
Sbeity painted vibrant portraits and landscapes of his rural hometown in Southern Lebanon.
Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young
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Anki King’s Nordic Noir
A pervasive sense of self-containment, isolation, and miscommunication flows through the Norwegian artist’s work.
Social Malpractice in the Age of Cultural Compliance
What happens when the language of social practice becomes a tool of the very systems it once hoped to challenge?
Ghanaian Artist Ibrahim Mahama Allegedly Assaulted by State Police
The artist, who represented Ghana in its first Venice Biennale pavilion, said he is considering suing his home country’s notorious police force.
Remembering Calvin Tomkins, Rhoda Roberts, and Agosto Machado
This week, we honor a celebrated art writer, a champion of First Nations culture, a downtown NYC performance artist and activist, and others.
Frank O’Hara’s Curatorial Eye
Though best remembered for his poetry, O’Hara championed artists like Helen Frankenthaler and organized several shows at the Museum of Modern Art during the Cold War.
Camille Lemoine’s Portrait of Home and Belonging in Rural Scotland
Atmospheric images capture steel gray clouds, gnarled trees, and clusters of purple heather. 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 Camille Lemoine’s
The Body I Couldn’t Abstract
"Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body."
Take Your Practice Further in a Visual Arts Residency at Banff Centre
Engage with leading contemporary faculty, access exceptional studios, and develop your practice in Banff’s inspiring mountain setting.
How to Stop Doing and Start Living
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
A Lush Textile Installation Springs to Life in Shanghai
Hu Yuehua's "Weaving Nature" is a large-scale composition of indigo and ochre botanicals. 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 A Lush Textile
How American Camouflage Conquered the World
"The world-famous MultiCam pattern was designed for the military by two Brooklyn hipsters. Now everyone—from babies to ICE agents—is suited up for battle."
The Last Great Weed Smuggler
"Before the cartels took over, Harvey Prager built a life on millions of dollars of drug money. One prosecutor called Prager 'the last of the great amateurs.' This is his story."