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Art Movements: Knights, Presidents, and Crooks
Christie’s auctions off a painting by Jimmy Carter, Trump sells a painting of Jesus, King Charles hands out honors, and more.
Dennis Lehtonen’s Aerial Views of Remote Greenland Villages Illuminate an Evolving Land
Lehtonen is documenting all the inhabited places in Greenland. 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 Dennis Lehtonen’s Aerial Views of Remote Greenland
NYC’s Transit Museum Pays Homage to the MetroCard
An exhibition reminisces about the yellow icon’s 32-year reign as the MTA retires the payment method for good.
University of Notre Dame Offers Fully-Funded MFA With Generous Stipend
Notre Dame is accepting graduate applications for fall 2026 in Studio Art (Painting/Drawing, Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture) and Design (Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design).
Joiri Minaya: Venus Flytrap
Co-directed by Joiri and Xenia Matthews, the film follows the artist through the creation of a performance series and installation in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden.
Step Into a Uniquely Cavernous House Installation by Japanese Art Collective 目
Explore a cave in the unlikeliest of places. 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 Step Into a Uniquely Cavernous House Installation by Japanese Art
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When This Restoration Expert Gets His Hands on a Relic, the Result Can Send You Back in Time
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
The Real Da Vinci Code
"Scholars on a quixotic quest to identify Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA achieve a milestone."
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Thibaut Grevet
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
A Plea to Museum Leaders
Why museums should voluntarily recognize unions, the art dealer guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, impressions from Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial, and more.
“It’s your fault”
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
Can Genius Be Taught? The Polgár Sisters and the Experiment That Put the Question to the Test
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
30 Years Later: Phyllis Hyman, “I Refuse to Be Lonely”
The singer's first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)
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