Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self
The YBA artist spearheaded contemporary art's trend of coupling extreme self-introspection with relentless self-promotion.
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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
The Scotland-based artist is creating hundreds of paper models based on Japanese designer Sanzo Wada's color combinations. 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
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
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."
Being in the world: technology and humanity
If technology threatens to flatten our humanity, artists can deepen it. Hear how, from a flamenco musician and a juggler - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
What Makes a Good Protest Sign?
Tip on how to create a powerful No Kings sign, art to see in Chicago this spring, DHS uses a Japanese artist’s painting to promote its racist agenda, the baby Jesus painting that went viral.
“Too complicated for people to understand”
That’s a great reason to dumb things down. It’s also a trap that leads us to stasis and mediocrity. Let’s break it down: People: Which people? All people? The majority of voters? Day traders or institutional long term investors? Every VC or just this one? Pick your people, pick
See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models
With his last picture The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg told a story of his own. Given his long-held stature as more or less the personification of big-screen Hollywood entertainment, there’s only one such story he could have told: that of how he became a filmmaker. The most
How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction
When it comes to tourist pilgrimage sites in the United States, the Hoover Dam may not quite rank up there with the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, or Disneyland. But that’s not due to a lack of importance, nor even a lack of
Despite Uncertainty, Gulf Art World Projects Normalcy
Many museums and galleries remain open and Art Dubai is rescheduled with cautious optimism, but experts warn of threats to cultural heritage.
The Biggest Week of the Spring?
We weigh in on the new New Museum, plus a guide to spring’s art fairs, Asia Art Week, and a new take on the Whitney Biennial.