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At a Maryland antiques mall, Curtis Kauffman takes trinkets from the past and makes them better than ever. For his customers, that’s worth a lot
"Scholars on a quixotic quest to identify Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA achieve a milestone."
The French director and photographer’s work will be on view at three special performances in January and February. 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
Why museums should voluntarily recognize unions, the art dealer guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, impressions from Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial, and more.
Those are harsh words. They imply agency, responsibility and failure. The response might be, “I did everything I was supposed to do.” Or perhaps, “What should I have done? I followed all the instructions.” Agency and freedom go together. We have more choices than we want to
As any new parent soon finds out, there exists a robust market for products, services, and media that promise to boost a child’s intelligence. Some of these offerings come as close as legally possible to holding out the promise of putting any tot on the path to genius, brazenly
The singer's first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
As much as it is about every part of Dublin that ever passed by James Joyce’s once-young eyes, Ulysses is also a book about books, and about writing and speech—as mythic invocation, as seduction, chatter, and rhetoric, fulsome and empty. Words—two-faced, like open books—carry
The artist's solo exhibition 'Latitude/Longitude' opens in Le Havre next month. 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 Paintings on Antique Navigational
Art institutions in the United States continue to force elections and exclude workers from eligibility to join unions, running counter to their own purported values and goals.
This week, we honor an Italian painter, a filmmaker who chronicled queer life, and a beloved museum curator.
This year’s biennial, The World Tree, was intended to highlight the “archetypal myth central to many ancient cosmogonies.”
The new research posits museums and galleries as “accessible, non-clinical spaces for preventive health promotion,” per the study’s authors.
An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today . Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE : “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
In Becoming the Sea, nostalgia for the Rhine River of Kiefer’s childhood flows into homages to the Mississippi as a symbol of both industry and creative freedom.
“'If you’re going to classify this story in any way, the story that you classify it as is a tragedy.'”
Pieter Henket highlights "the boundaries between Mexico’s deeply rooted Catholic traditions and the freedom of modern self-expression." Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7
In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas . For its time, the atlas was remarkably accurate and comprehensive. This video explains how such a map was made in medieval times. From Open Culture : The upshot is an answer to the very
Up to seven artists and two curators will participate in a paid, 10-month intensive residency in New Haven, Connecticut.
"Return to office mandates aren’t about output. They’re about asserting control."
Bertrand Scholler was among 10 brought to court for promoting a conspiracy theory that the first lady was assigned male at birth.
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"The author and his closest basketball confidantes undertake a formal analysis of Steph Curry’s shot at the Paris Olympics as art object."