Panels of thick, gestural brushstrokes animate a story of loss, grief, and remembrance. 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 Painted by Hand, a
"We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others... There is a virgin forest in each."
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s vital scrolls, muralist Cece Carpio’s first solo show, the Matisse painting that launched Fauvism, the future of Japanese ceramic art, and more.
The move comes a year after the National Park Service scrubbed mentions of queer and trans people from its website, prompting protests at the NYC landmark.
The artist's current show is a moving reflection on the ways our identities are inexorably entangled with our relationships and surroundings.
The Epstein files rip through the art world's elite, yet hope emerges in the work of Goya, Amazonian artists, and three millennia of storytellers.
One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to
“At this marvelous hard-won age, the days of jumping and dancing with the paintings are over. But I don't feel limited,” says the artist, educator, and Civil Rights luminary.
"Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?"
Boafo is known for his stylized portraiture of Black people, whose skin the artist renders in swirling gestures made with his fingers. 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
On its 50th anniversary year, the Queens-based museum tapped 53 local artists for the sixth edition of its cross-borough survey.
"Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes."
"The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created."
Thomas celebrates the nomadic lifeway and ancient customs of livestock herding and eagle hunting in the Altai Mountains. 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
The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) invites creatives from all backgrounds to apply for this four-day summer program in Venice.
"A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?"
How the "Benito Bowl" took on a second life in the digital realm, Israel's artwashing at the Venice Biennale, an art history of liminalism, and shows to see in NYC.
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms - by Yogi Hale Hendlin Read on Aeon
The challenge of the library is the card catalog. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s hard to find much of anything. The challenge of the web is the search box, for the same reason. It’s efficient once you’re on a mission, but it requires you to go first. And the
We know more or less everything we could possibly know about ancient Egyptian civilization. That owes in large part to the advanced state of record-keeping it achieved, and how many of its writings have survived, up to and including — as previously featured here on Open Culture
Eight stories on the power and beauty of visual communication.
In 1964—a year before the release of A Charlie Brown Christmas—Vince Guaraldi gave the first televised performance of “Linus and Lucy.” Filmed for public television, the performance featured Guaraldi on piano, Tom Beeson on bass, and John Rae on drums. Long unseen, this 1964