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
"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."
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
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.
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
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
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
Many museums and galleries remain open and Art Dubai is rescheduled with cautious optimism, but experts warn of threats to cultural heritage.
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.
“Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary,” writes Rebecca Solnit . “In reality, it’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy…could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime.”
We asked artists, writers, and curators for practical tips on crafting a powerful protest sign.
Martin Wong's mesmerizing Chinatowns, Mindy Rose Schwartz's subversion of craft, Nate Millstein's tin ceilings, and so much more.
Hiroshi Nagai, best known for painting leisurely beach and poolside scenes, told Hyperallergic that he is “at a loss” after the agency used his work to promote its agenda.
The artist's solo exhibition, 'Super/Natural,' continues through May 23 at Claire Oliver Gallery. 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 Get
We watched Zoolander last night and right before the Derelicte DJ throws on Relax, there’s a 2-second snippet of something that sounded super familiar. It took me a bit to track it down, but it’s trance banger Free by Mono Culture .
A new edition of On Liberty, a canonical work of political philosophy, “is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill” .
Online reactions to Rosso Fiorentino's recently discovered work might be channeling the very essence of the stylized art movement 500 years on.
“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show” . Not surprising when you look at excess mortality numbers for that period.
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
The title of the series fits the ill-fated backstory: 'We went to Mars and it was a disaster.' 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 Doomed Mission to
"To create today is to create dangerously... The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies... the strange liberty of creation is possible."
"If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world."