The documentary short by art historian James Payne traces the history of the paradigm-shifting painting. 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 Great Art
As two documenta 15 artists who were mercilessly vilified due to our support of Palestine, here’s what you need to consider when you make your choice.
Amnesty International found that Israeli forces had no evidence of a verifiable military target at the site of the strike.
The case of the copyright history of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis is as convoluted as the history of its film print. Lang’s vision and his original almost-three-hour cut were doomed to censorship right from the start. The Nazis took out its more
In this column honoring those we lost in the art community, we remember a leading Spanish sculptor, a Dutch museum leader, and an Indian modernist.
The artist, former cultural worker, and union organizer won a seat in the US House of Representatives by nearly 70 percentage points.
Later this month, Fort Gansevoort presents 25 of the late Ohio artist's works in 'Beaded and Bound.' 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 Aminah Brenda
“Works of art last much longer than their governments,” she told Hyperallergic in an interview following the far-right president’s removal of works from the National Museum.
"A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialized age."
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From his studio in Athens, Stelios Pupet renders meditative paintings that place organic elements within a subtle grid. 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
I’m taking the day off from the site today — feeling crispy from a little too much work lately. Besides, everyone’s gonna be too busy huffing US midterm election results to pay any attention to anything else. In the meantime, you can spend some time with my poorly timed
"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."
Like living metaphors, these self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Voting stickers adorn memorials to ICE victims, Jeremy Shaw talks grief and ecstasy, and a portable archive of East LA.
There’s an overlooked power tool right in front of us. Every individual and organization can use it well, but rarely does. I could write a book on this, but here’s the post instead: Synchronized work happens together, on a shared schedule, in real time. Asynchronized work (my
We live in an age when you can describe practically anything you want to see in words, then see it almost immediately. Nobody will ever have laid eyes upon that particular sight before — and quite possibly, nobody ever will again. There we have both the upside and the downside
In a recent video , Kurzgesagt explores what we know about the first human civilizations that formed some 12,000 years ago and how they led to the first cities and the invention of writing. What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest
The Albuquerque-based artist explores contemporary Assyrian experience through pattern, fashion, and autobiography. 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
“He embraced people wholeheartedly, recognized what they needed, and connected them with opportunities and with one another,” said Calvillo’s colleague.
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, Curated by Nada Shabout, on view at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery through January 3, 2027
In two new books, the artist weaves her archive of photos, ephemera, and flyers into the story of ’90s Chicanx youth culture, tracing both a personal and collective coming-of-age.
Do you think you could write down the names of 3000 people? “As part of a competition with a few friends, I attempted the very dumb challenge of trying to write the names of 3,000 real people in one sitting. It took 7 hours, but I did it.”