I love these collage illustrations of various celebrities and famous characters by artist/designer Fries Vansevenant : Han Solo & Luke Skywalker , Notorious BIG , Heath Ledger’s Joker , Beatrix Kiddo , David Beckham . There are more on his Insta . Tags: art · design · Fries
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
Helene Schjerfbeck’s penetrating self-portraits at The Met, Pride flag artist’s foundation sues the Trump administration, and remembering Henrike Naumann.
When phone cameras got good enough, portrait photographers scolded people who took their own headshots. And when the Mac got pretty good at typesetting, professional designers pointed out that people who can’t tell a font from a typeface and don’t care about kerning should
The saying “You can’t take it with you” may be a cliché to all of us here in the twenty-first century, but it would hardly have made sense to an ancient Egyptian. One of the most widely known qualities of that civilization’s upper crust, after all, is that its members spared no
One thing they don’t teach you in parenting school is how to guide a young child into making fewer mistakes in her homework, while also communicating to her that mistakes are not “bad” but often “good” in that they can be conduits for creative thinking and intuitive pathways to
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
"Crisis... is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis."
You'll want to linger in winter just a bit longer. 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 Journey Through Autumn and Winter in Robinsson Cravents’
Though listed as a “fine art and photography” business, Easy Aerial contracts with Customs and Border Protection and the Israeli military, activists long flagged.
The Finnish artist’s first major exhibition in the US is a moving and harrowing document of her growth, as well as the psychic and physical ravages of aging.
It’s one of two recent lawsuits targeting the government’s interventions across parks and monuments in the week after the Pride flag was removed from Stonewall.
New from Neal Agarwal: Sandboxels . “It’s a falling-sand game with hundreds of elements, heat simulation, electricity & a lot more. I like making little cities and then adding tons of rats.”
It’s one of multiple actions in solidarity with artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, whose exhibition of works critical of ICE violence was abruptly shuttered.
This exhibition explores the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion, tracing parallel aesthetics from 18th-century Rococo to postmodernism.
Some modern collective nouns : a cringe of Cybertrucks, an anxiety of authors, a migraine of toddlers, and “a group of two or men is called a podcast”.
Artist-run spaces represent the heart of Los Angeles’s art scene, yet most people still see the city’s identity as tied to the market — one that’s increasingly influenced by the East Coast.
Business/product advice: launch it three times . “The vast majority of the time, the single biggest problem you have is that nobody knows you exist, and nobody gives a damn about what you do.”
This week, we honor Germany’s representative at the Venice Biennale, a singer and photographer, and a documentarian of the lives of institutions.
Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing
With music by Max Cooper and visuals by Conner Griffith , A Sense of Getting Closer is a music video that was inspired by a quote submitted to Cooper’s On Being project : I have a sense of getting closer to something which my life depends on. I can sense it but I cannot tell
Searching for Birds , an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds.
Discover what happens when working creatives, career pivoters, and lifelong makers plug into art and design education at Pratt’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Leaves and blooms invite viewers to immerse themselves in a jungle-like atmosphere. 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 Foliage and Wild Creatures
How to raise children . “It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is.”