Inside Akira Ikezoe’s Studio

The Whitney Biennial artist on humor and climate change, plus an unsung AbEx painter gets his due.

Facts and feelings

The world is like this and therefore I feel like that. That seems right. It’s raining, so I’m sad. The person cut me off in traffic and so I’m angry. Ford makes better cars, so I like them more than Chevys. Occasionally, this cause and effect is what happens. But more often, it

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When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)

Photo via Wikimedia Commons “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother,” goes a well-known quote attributed variously to Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Ernest Rutherford. No matter who said it, “the sentiment… rings true,”

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

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Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)

Hey all. It’s Sunday afternoon of a holiday weekend and the weather is glorious here, so what better (worse) time to unleash a new feature on KDO? I’ve been working on a new wysiwyg comment editor for the past few days and it’s finally ready to go. Asking you folks to deal with

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Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González

"Creating isn't something we do (in Spain), it's something we are," the artist says. "And I come from that; I carry it in my body." 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

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