E. Berry Wall was a dude. But not just any dude. In 1888, he was declared “King of the Dudes” in a competition against another gentleman, one Robert Hilliard. Wall became famous after meeting Blakely Hall, a reporter hungry for good copy. Thereafter, every week or so, Hall’s
Four decades after his Times Square artwork challenged the definition of America, the Chilean architect calls himself “a pessimist with my intellect and an optimist with my will.”
The president wants to replace José de Rivera's “Infinity” (1967) outside the National Museum of American History with a statue of George Washington.
Join us on September 30 for an evening of studio visits and conversations with the NYC-based artists selected for the International Studio & Curatorial Program's Ground Floor Residency.
Join us on September 30 for an evening of open studios and conversations with the NYC-based artists selected for the International Studio & Curatorial Program's Ground Floor Residency.
From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every “framed picture” emoji . “A total rejection of nature and reality. Why is the horizon rounded? Has this artist seen planet earth before?”
"We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity."
A long-awaited Whistler retrospective at Tate Britain makes the case that every brushstroke, color, and omission serves the pursuit of harmony.
“We The Youth” (1987), painted on a wall co-owned by a real-estate developer, could become the city’s first outdoor mural on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.
The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers on “a more precise definition of kissing”, “An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing”, and the discovery “that milk proteins from cockroaches pack 3X as much energy as milk proteins from cows”.
"The ambiguous future of Japan’s most prestigious group of animators won’t get clearer anytime soon."
The inflatable cavatappi-shaped artwork, inspired by fashion house Bulgari’s serpent motif, will remain on view through New York Fashion Week.
An exhibition explores the creativity and imagination of an artist whose way of seeing influences architects and artists.
Project Hail Mary is already on my list of movies that I can just throw on in the backround while I do a bit of work or puttering around. (Not sure whether that’s an endorsement or not…I like the movie!) Anyhoo, if you get tired of the movie, you can watch Rocky sleep for 2+
Baxter uses materials derived from the earth that are explicitly solid, evoking an intimate tension between vulnerability and strength. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Demonstrators at the British Museum decried billionaire Igor Tulchinsky’s financing of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank.
Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday , a stationary store run by (former?) graphic designer Sam Potts , who announced the shop back in March in a KDO open thread . Lots of nice touches here, including a used pencil exchanger .
Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million ??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.
"My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones."
A wave of museum thefts is exposing the vulnerabilities of institutions struggling to protect irreplaceable collections after years of underfunding.
From Deep Down History, an entertaining hour-long explainer video on the Bayeux Tapestry . This video tells the Tapestry’s story in full, using Charles Stothard’s early colour reproduction, presented here as a seamless scroll for the first time. We follow Harold Godwinson’s
The artist describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” 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 Art History and Pop Culture Converge in
I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make some of the best video game explainer videos out there — hell, some of the best YT videos period) and here’s their newest one: The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever .
“Hockney Reproduction(s)" explores the artist's innovation through reproductive media at the Manship Artists Residency. Opens September 11, 2026
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod fishing due to overfishing. It was devastating for Newfoundlanders. This year, for the first time since then, the govt has “upgraded the cod stock’s status from ‘critical’ to ‘healthy’” .
From NTS, this is a two-hour mix of jazz music featured in the books of Haruki Murakami. ‘Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on
We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys . Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus .