The Scotland-based artist is creating hundreds of paper models based on Japanese designer Sanzo Wada's color combinations. 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
A pervasive sense of self-containment, isolation, and miscommunication flows through the Norwegian artist’s work.
What happens when the language of social practice becomes a tool of the very systems it once hoped to challenge?
The artist, who represented Ghana in its first Venice Biennale pavilion, said he is considering suing his home country’s notorious police force.
This week, we honor a celebrated art writer, a champion of First Nations culture, a downtown NYC performance artist and activist, and others.
Though best remembered for his poetry, O’Hara championed artists like Helen Frankenthaler and organized several shows at the Museum of Modern Art during the Cold War.
Atmospheric images capture steel gray clouds, gnarled trees, and clusters of purple heather. 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 Camille Lemoine’s
"Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body."
Engage with leading contemporary faculty, access exceptional studios, and develop your practice in Banff’s inspiring mountain setting.
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
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 .