The artist subverts the practical purpose as each object emerges antithetical to its original form. 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 Stained Glass
"I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull."
The benefits of rave culture, Genesis P-Orridge's subversive mail art, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more.
The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire Read on Aeon
If we remove impediments that are in the way of where our customers seek to go, they support us. But when we remove the friction that gives people traction on their journey, they flounder. Remove the hassles that people don’t care about, but celebrate the hassles that make it
Image via Wikimedia Commons It must come up in every single argument, from sophisticated to sophomoric, about the practicability of non-violent pacifism. “Look what Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to achieve!” “Yes, but what about Hitler? What do you do about the
The Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing’s ‘Til Madness Do Us Part, a documentary about a mental institution in Yunnan, runs three hours and 48 minutes. Beauty Lives in Freedom, on the life of imprisoned artist Gao Ertai, is five and a half hours long; Dead Souls, on the survivors of a
Inspired by Korean funerary practices, the artist's new works examine how ritual and reflection mark the cycles of time.
Archaeologists found 16 drawings and petroglyphs along the route of a forthcoming high-speed passenger train.
Her paintings compress Roman mythology, Italian Renaissance paintings, color relationships, and that moment before disappearance.
"That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture—of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly."
Plus, inside a Black Panther family album, predatory art-world relationships, and the unknown Qing Dynasty trade portraitists.
His sculptures are a striking metaphor for the fragile equilibrium of American life.
"The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times."
The late artist’s submissions to General Idea in the 1970s are the subject of a focused exhibition at Art Metropole in Toronto.
In her short documentary, filmmaker Callie Barlow invites locals to share their love—or loathing—for the vibrant birds. 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
"For seven decades, the gospel singer Mavis Staples has troubled the opposition between chorus and soloist, background and lead."
The rave offers a temporary homeland, a space where belonging is felt rather than declared.
Bold and vibrant large-scale installations featuring blossoming flowers celebrate the natural world and bring the outside indoors.
