Texas A&M’s Visualization Graduate Programs Merge Art and Technology
Full funding is available for MFA students; MS students have scholarship and assistantship opportunities. The priority deadline for funding is January 15, 2026.
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Historic Pottery Styles Meet Pop Culture and Contemporary Issues in Roberto Lugo’s Sculptures
The Philadelphia-based artist taps into ancient Greek art and pop culture alike. 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 Historic Pottery Styles Meet Pop
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a...
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision — in other words, through ethnic cleansing .”
The 2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past
The show's displays of juvenilia from established artists says little about adolescents today and makes its message inscrutable.
Training and Critiquing AI Through Art at WashU
Tiffany Calvert creates historically inspired still life paintings with an AI twist through a collaboration with engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.
A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025, including “rage...
A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025 , including “rage bait”, “vibe coding”, “Mar-a-Lago face”, “chaos”, “performative male”, and “Kavanaugh stop”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Born Poor
Born Poor (PBS/Frontline) is a documentary filmed across 14 years about three kids in the US as they grow into young adults while “dealing with an economy where they face more obstacles than opportunities”. Free to watch online (probably US-only, so fire up your VPN if you live
The Strange Fate of Flight 2069
"Months before 9/11 a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara. Everyone survived but no one quite recovered. How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didn’t happen?"
Field Kallop Meditates on Universal Patterns Through Bold Chromatic Compositions
"I'm spiritual in that I'm interested in that beauty and that order that is everywhere, that connects everyone," Kallop says. 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.
Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
"However persuasive they might be as facsimiles, shokuhin sampuru are subjective interpretations, seeking not only to replicate dishes but to intensify the feelings associated with the real thing."
Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed
Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.
Lost Vegas
"Everyone inside America’s most flailing destination city has a theory for what’s wrong. Now I have my own."
Filtering ourselves
We don’t use the same language or ideas with an in-law that we do with our bar buddies. When the internet was young, people often chose to filter themselves online. We didn’t know who was on the other end of the pipe, and we knew it would be there forever. And typing feels more
How Movies Created Their Special Effects Before CGI: Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
The youngest moviegoers today do not, of course, remember a time before visual effects could be created digitally. What may give us more pause is that, at this point in cinema history, most of their parents don’t remember it either. Consider the fact that Steven Spielberg’s
Best of 2025: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
These audience hits were the most-viewed picks on our site in 2025.
How Many Humans Have Ever Lived, and How Many Are Alive Right Now?
?si=RT8MgKeGcVzX6p9X How many people have ever walked the earth? Good question, even if you’ve never quite pondered it before. According to the Population Reference Bureau, a non-profit research organization, if you travel back to 8000 B.C.E., the world population stood at
Artists Issue Urgent Call to Defend First Amendment Rights
In New York City's Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights was introduced, cultural leaders decried attacks on free expression, from book bans to censorship.
The Sinister Plan to Demolish a Brutalist Icon in Dallas
Behind the spectacle of City Hall’s potential demolition is the transfer of funding away from the public and into a few extraordinarily wealthy hands.
Mamdani Pulls a Marina Abramović at a Queens Museum
New York’s mayor-elect staged a 12-hour appearance at the Museum of the Moving Image, meeting with around 140 visitors for brief one-on-one meetings.
These Are the Artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial
Three Palestinian visual artists, plus one born in Baghdad, are listed among the 56 participants.
