This past year, the annual contest saw thousands of entries spanning more than 90 countries. 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 Rare Glimpses of
Saving the "Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art,” on being a Somali American artist in Minnesota, and how get into the Whitney Biennial.
That’s easy advice and a fine goal. Except… if you look at the last hundred years, we haven’t seen many useful advances in mousetraps, despite the number of people who have tried. It feels like an infinite market, so it attracts a lot of entrants. You probably won’t come up
The Cohen Building, which houses works by Jewish artists Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel, among others, is slated for sale by the Trump administration.
Videos show water pouring from the ceiling near the gift shop in the institution’s brand-new building.
The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.
Her painting series is a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn.
I thought this said “Winamp” and I got really excited.
The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.
From Taner’s Funk Kitchen, a 30-minute set of smooth/chill deep cuts from Daft Punk . As noted in the description, this mix is less of a club vibe and more of a chill listening party. The DJ is using a Digital Vinyl System (DVS) to play/mix the songs. I’d never heard of this
How are identities shaped, perceived, and negotiated through appearance? 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 Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial
A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism . “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy, has ever been as all-encompassing as the economic logic of capitalism,’ Beckert claims, defining it as ‘the ceaseless accumulation of privately controlled capital.’”
Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss , whose work and influence on Piet Mondrian’s work is being reevaluated. “It is now widely recognised in the art world that it was as much Moss who influenced Mondrian as the other way round…”
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche. “The true and durable path into and through experience,” Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney counseled the young more than a century later in his
A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’ , the perfect mascot for 2026.
When I picture where Koons’s sculptures belong, I think about Trump’s plan for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, and the art collectors who funded it.
The Brandenburg-based photographer captures feathered personalities in detail. 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 Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota , including donating money, hassling ICE-supporting businesses, and “Get Ready For This Bullshit to Come to You”.
“Love, but be careful what you love,” the Roman African philosopher Saint Augustine wrote in the final years of the fourth century. We are, in some deep sense, what we love — we become it as much as it becomes us, beckoned from our myriad conscious and unconscious longings,
How do children thrive amid turmoil, whether political, cultural, or personal? 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 Two Artists Consider How Chicago