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On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community
Harriet Mena Hill is devoted to documenting a community amid demolition. 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 On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury
Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s...
Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s upcoming album, While the Flood Rages, which will be available wherever you stream your music on Oct 16.
Arthur Jafa, King of Pop
His eclectic references and intuitive grasp of memes and virality set him apart as an artist taking assemblage and collage to new heights.
This is a fun daily game: Catfishing. You guess the...
This is a fun daily game: Catfishing . You guess the Wikipedia article from its categories.
A Tribute to Black Soho Inside a New York Art Fair
Historic archives are displayed alongside works by Emma Amos, David Hammons, Vivian Browne, and more in a presentation at Independent 20th Century.
Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of...
Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of musicians improvisationally play 53 melodic fragments in the key of C. This web app lets you play multiple In C live performances layered on top of each other. In C to the power of In C, if you will.
A View From the Easel
“I also have a mini trampoline that I’ve always had in my studio, it’s a reminder to stay playful.”
Spring Break Art Show Tackles Life's Crushing Burdens
Fair participants touch on politics and current events through their own lens and invite others to do the same.
Artists at Spring Break Art Show Tackle Life's Crushing Burdens
Fair participants touch on politics and current events through their own lens and invite others to do the same.
“The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination...
“ The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.”
Lisa Bradley Moves Beyond Luminosity at the Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum presents the artist’s newest body of work in a solo exhibition spanning recent large-scale paintings and early works on paper.
“The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has introduced a...
“The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has introduced a new black card to help prevent abusive behaviour from parents at youth-team matches.” If, after two warnings, the black card is shown, the match is permanently cancelled.
“Doyle Lane: Master of Clay” Now on View at The Huntington
Discover the first major museum retrospective devoted to the influential Los Angeles ceramic artist.
Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the...
Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the 12,060-piece Sagrada Família . $800. It will take as long to build as the actual cathedral — you may not live to see it finished.
Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence
Have you found yourself stunned by the Surrealist works of Remedios Varo? Same. 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 Three Artists and Two Writers On
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the cuckoo’s nest, fruitful work, keys and locks, commander in fief; perfect sound forever, and more.
Should You Sit Out the Armory Show?
One line on the blue-chip behemoth, Independent 20th Century highlights overlooked artists, and more.
Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind - by Emilie Prattico Read on Aeon
Thinking about your purpose
I don’t believe we’re each born with a purpose. We have more freedom than that, the freedom to choose the impact we’ll make. Our work, though, does have a purpose. The change we seek to make. The people we’re here to make it for. When we commit to work with purpose, it
Say what you want
The problem is with the “and.” (Often a ‘but’ in disguise.) I want to make the art I have in my head, and I want the market to love it. I want to have the wedding of my dreams, and I don’t want to worry about money, and I want my cousins and friends to […]
How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to bed for long periods of time, which would constitute neither her last nor her harshest experience of confinement. She was
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.”
The Armory Show in One Sentence
This year's edition seemed awfully quiet and downcast, making the financial sector trade show on the floor below seem like a riot in comparison.
Independent 20th Century, the Mise en Abyme of Art Fairs
Despite the mind-boggling amount of spectacular works on view, I was reminded at each turn that the Breuer Building has been turned into an art mall.
The Polish Pavilion Dissolves You in the Politics of Sound
At the Venice Biennale, whale songs become a means for communication, opening up a dialogue on accessibility.
Scans of City Textures
Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website , he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as well. You can
Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures: a handful of painted sherds of the twelfth century BC…”
El Museo del Barrio Apologizes for Renting Space for 9/11 Conspiracy Event
The Harlem institution said it was "not aware of the full program, content and speaker list for this event.”
Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at...
Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)
Christie’s Launches Pop Culture Division to Court Millennial and Gen Z Buyers
Ringo Drum Kits Lennon Gretsch Christies March 2026
