Above, you can watch a primer on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage between Iran and Oman through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply flows. Produced by Vox, the video explains why this chokepoint has long played a central role in tensions between the United
"All of my photographs strain credulity by design," Jackson says. 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 Breezy Swathes of Fabric Dance Amid Landscapes in
And, more importantly, is the work on view worth the price?
300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983 . The ads alone are incredible.
Her visual idiom was fully embedded in South Asian histories, but she never fell into a too-close relationship with national identity.
This week: Ukrainian mosaics, artists and motherhood, Dolores Huerta speaks out, copaganda in the US, wall labels versus artworks, and is your diet a little bit fascist?
The artist is among the Rauschenberg Centennial Award winners, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
Winners of the Rauschenberg Centennial Award, Madeleine Grynsztejn leaves MCA Chicago, Banksy is (maybe) unmasked, and other industry news this week.
“ The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over 120,000 artworks from museums and institutions — searchable by feeling, mood, atmosphere, era, and medium.”
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
Institutions are removing references to the Chicano labor leader, who was accused of sexually abusing girls in a new investigation.
I met Willow at a loom on a farm one late-summer day. She was amused that I thought she looked like Mary Shelley, in whose world I’d been immersed for seven years while writing Traversal. Neither of us knew who the other was — Willow turned out to be the co-founder of the
"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion."
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries . There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.”
"After years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness."
Paris now has a cycling network bigger than Amsterdam and “more daily trips in Paris are now made by bike than by car”.
Photographer and drone pilot Pio Andrea Peri captured this overhead photo of a Sicilian city called Centuripe. Perched atop hilltops, the city looks like a person from above — even on Google Maps . (via daily overview ) Tags: drones · pareidolia · photography · Pio Andrea Peri
"L'Ile Folie" is a contemporary landmark perched above a pond in Cary, North Carolina. 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 Marc Fornes’ New Sculptural
Gender Play in Nineteenth-Century Theater . “The most popular Shakespearean roles for women in the tragic repertoire were Romeo and Hamlet, but women also played Macbeth, Cardinal Wolsey, Shylock, Richard III, and Iago…”
“I wish I had a vegetable garden next to my studio and a pig walking around in my workspace.”
A study pitted adults vs little kids to see which was better at making paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock . “The researchers found that the kids’ paintings made in this manner resembled genuine Pollocks more than did those from adult painters.”
Inoue’s striking characters' small scale belies their infinite inner emotional worlds. 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 Restrained Emotions Simmer
"The Congolese rumba pioneer Docteur Nico helped define the sound of African decolonization—and became one of the great visionaries of the electric guitar."
From April 30 to May 3, discover 27 galleries and 17 special projects spotlighting artists from across the world at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn.
Dawn Wilcox’s quest to chronicle the life & death of every woman in the US killed by a man . “Did women have no choice, Wilcox wondered, but to wander the world hoping never to step on a landmine of a man?”
Checking in with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, kinetic machine sculptures that move under their own power along the beach. Some of the most recent versions are quick fast and can even tow humans along behind them.
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line
“Sync music” has become the soundtrack to our lives — whether we realize it or not.