Despite Uncertainty, Gulf Art World Projects Normalcy
Many museums and galleries remain open and Art Dubai is rescheduled with cautious optimism, but experts warn of threats to cultural heritage.
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The Biggest Week of the Spring?
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...
“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.”
How to Make a No Kings Protest Sign
We asked artists, writers, and curators for practical tips on crafting a powerful protest sign.
10 Exhibitions to See in Chicago This Spring
Martin Wong's mesmerizing Chinatowns, Mindy Rose Schwartz's subversion of craft, Nate Millstein's tin ceilings, and so much more.
DHS Appropriates Japanese Artist’s Work in Racist X Post
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.
Get ‘Super/Natural’ Inside Judith Schaechter’s Stained Glass Sculpture
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...
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...
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” .
Internet Goes Wild for The Met’s Newly Acquired Mannerist Painting
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...
“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.
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
A Doomed Mission to Mars Awaits Henry Wood’s Lanky Explorers
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
Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom
"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."
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
"If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world."
Lay It Down
"People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore."
Austin Bell Chronicles Every Single One of Hong Kong’s 2,549 Basketball Courts
'SHOOTING HOOPS' conveys a unique portrait of the region. 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 Austin Bell Chronicles Every Single One of Hong Kong’s
The Year I Was Supposed to Die
"At 42, with young kids, I got a devastating diagnosis. I knew I was in for a harrowing journey. I didn’t know quite what kind."