The Art World Reacts to Yayoi Kusama’s Passing
Artists, designers, galleries, and museums have taken to Instagram to discuss the legacy of the pop icon who died on August 14.
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September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Time to brush up that artist's statement! 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 September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for
Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway
"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."
Your Guide to NYC Art Shows This Fall
We round up the must-see art exhibitions around the city this fall so you don’t have to. Plus: How did the police confuse a sculpture for a person?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.
What’s next?
For fifteen or twenty years, this question is relentlessly answered, whether or not we ask it. After we learn fractions, the teacher moves on to decimals. After we read O’Connor, we’re handed Faulkner. In music history, Debussy follows Brahms. Chemistry after biology. It
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn’t been written by humans, but generated by artificial
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
"Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought."
Pattern and Bold, Saturated Color Commingle in Ben Sledsens’ Rhythmic Paintings
While bold in color, Ben Sledsens' oil-and-acrylic paintings are quiet and intimate. 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 Pattern and Bold, Saturated
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
Hyperallergic Fall 2026 New York Art Guide
From Brancusi’s modernism to Krasner and Pollock’s midcentury stylings to Arthur Jafa’s contemporary lens, there’s something for everyone this season.
Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave
I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt for poetry, part of the larger binomial two people co-create when their worlds touch each other
Police Break Into Vancouver Gallery After Confusing Sculpture for Person
A passerby called 911 earlier this month after interpreting the protruding legs of an anthropomorphic sculpture as a person in need of medical assistance.
Major Queer Art Auction Features Peaches, Chappell Roan, and Chani Nicholas
Dozens of donated artworks, archival media, experiences, and collectibles that embody the queer canon are available through the second annual Queer | Art x Doll Invasion fundraiser exhibition.
Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press Gets an Exhibition of Its Own
They were both writers, and amongst the remarkable fruits of their union was a decision to open a small press, which in time grew into something far from small.
Emptying the Tabs…
Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous.