Knight conceived of 'Exhale' as a way to explore the nuances of color and "the emotional experience of looking." 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
The new home in New York, known as Branchline, will display selections from the family’s trove of over 800 contemporary Native artworks.
Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari ball. You can even roll up KDO . This is too much fun. See also Destroy Any Website .
It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time . Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger’s Formula 1 Quiz: 3. Which team was the best in the 80’s? Statistically, it’s McLaren, but that’s not a correct
I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals . So cool.
From art history to instruction, Quarto publishes visually-rich books for artists of all mediums and skill levels.
“Sweet Revenge” at the Reina Sofía gives the impression of a showcase of a second-generation Minimalist artist, emphasizing form over anything else.
These photographs from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest showcase Native Americans taking part in their respective tribal customs
Guo's paintings in 'Temple II,' opening next week at Hollis Taggart, explore memory, presence, and loss. 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 Symmetry
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”
Southern artists can apply now to show in Lake City, SC, where the whole town becomes a gallery April 15 - May 1, 2027.
The defining images of the nationwide movement, New York drag artists celebrate queer politics and joy, and the scoop on Hyperallergic’s Halloween plans.
Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labor takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals - by Or Rosenboim Read on Aeon
Civilized culture is based on a thin sort of friction. You don’t yell at the library, act boorish at a restaurant or hassle a minor celebrity at the supermarket. It’s just not done. The result of these human layers and inferences are cues and norms that add up to a connected,
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
Each time you look up at the night sky, you see only ancient signals — by the time a photon has reached your pupil, the star that emitted it may be long dead. The great wonder is that its light can traverse immense expanses of space and time to gladden the darkness of today, to
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word . “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
Inside the brain's secret portal to remembering the future.
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying across
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.”
Plus, the Boston Public Art Triennial’s curatorial team, Kinosaito fall artist residents, and Mariah Carey’s “Last Supper” selfie in this week's Art Movements.
Painted signs and trash bins have become a visual lexicon of resistance as protesters call for educational reform and an immediate end to police violence.
Abolish Frat Culture . “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
Reigning diva Amygdala brings Brooklyn drag to Manhattan in “Pleasure Dome: Continuum,” a fête of therapeutic sound, vaudeville tributes, and queer politics.
