Brooklyn Museum’s Africa Collection to Get a Brand New Space
The new exhibition space will connect the art and historical legacy of Ancient Egypt and North Africa to that of the rest of the continent.
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Thieves Steal Paintings Worth $10M by Cézanne, Matisse, and Renoir
Italian police are searching for the works after a middle-of-the-night heist at a small museum outside of Parma.
April 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
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Masking My Autism Made Me Sick
"The rules dictated that I hide not only my sensitivity but my essential being in the world."
New Protest Art Lampoons Trump's Gaudy Bathroom Redesign
“In a time of unprecedented division,” reads a plaque, “President Trump focused on what truly mattered: remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House.”
The Bottom of the Ninth
"In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence."
See Photos From New York’s Historic Anti-Trump Marches
“Art is a way that we get to connect with each other, to witness each other, and to give a little bit of a buoy to keep going,” one protester told Hyperallergic.
A Drama of Two Masters
How to survive the age of AI, and a new film tries its best to dramatize the rivalry between two British landscape painters.
Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks
A new retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid traces Uslé's work from a Spanish shipwreck to its rebirth in New York City
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I love these looping GIF animations from perfectl00p that use Windows 3.1 elements (Minesweeper, Solitaire, SkiFree, Notepad).
Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan’s Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food
For Kathleen Ryan, the myriad colors and textures of mold continue to inspire larger-than-life sculptures that, in a way, preserve decay. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists
Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.
Turner and Constable Hit the Screen
The camera glides smoothly over landscapes of old England in a film that tries hard to dramatize the rivalry between the two masters.
Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times
In praise of "the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world."
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
A search for answers
When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Talking Raphael
One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien's oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.
The hypercurious mind
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read on Aeon
Art Retreats in the South of France Offer Mirth, Myth, and Mystery
Threshold Art Retreats are for artists seeking creative exploration in an extraordinary setting at the Château de La Napoule. 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.
Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain
Xiaoze Xie contends with the long legacy of censorship by casting banned books in porcelain. 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 Xiaoze Xie Preserves a
Redundancy and resilience
If it’s important, don’t ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at the system, not the people.
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
It takes about five hours to drive from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the Autobahn. During that stretch, you can listen to Kraftwerk’s album Autobahn seven times — or if you prefer, you can loop its eponymous opening song thirteen times. For it was “Autobahn,” more so than Autobahn,
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
You can’t beat the market. That, at least, is the advice we all encounter early on when first we try our hand at investing. Homespun though it may sound, the idea has academic roots: the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as the economists call it, holds that the prices in any
Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
"All you have is what you are, and what you give."