“Everybody talks about wanting to step off,” Blum said. “But nothing ever really changes.”
A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — expressing the power of repetition to bring about complexity.
Nora Naranjo Morse’s colorful sculptures watch over the events and characters in her daughter Eliza’s paintings from their own unique perspectives.
The photographer of intimate images is behind a crotch shot accompanying the singer’s new record, which fans have dubbed “Lordussy.”
The Louvre on June 27 officially launched a contest to design its planned $316 million expansion that will help it accommodate 12 million visitors annually. The project is aimed at helping the Paris institution, the world’s most visited museum, address overcrowding issues. Originally completed in 1793 and renovated in the 1980s to welcome 4 million […]
Curator and anthropologist Hélio Menezes has been dismissed from his role as director of the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo in São Paulo following an unusually brief tenure. He had been appointed to the post in March 2024, succeeding founding director Araujo (1940–2022), for whom the twenty-one-year-old institution is named. Menezes, a onetime curator at […]
Italy will reduce value-added tax (VAT) on art sales from...
The relocation comes as some high-profile figures involved in the art industry depart the UK following tax reforms on the country's ultra-wealthy.
Freshly installed at the new LACMA building ahead of the museum’s spring reopening, the massive artwork resembling an abstract spider offers a link to the past.
This historic chalk drawing in England once drew outcry over its most famous feature, the hanging appendage lauded elsewhere as a fertility symbol.
The line of linkable digital speakers is an eclectic octuple of wooden characters. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts...
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Erie Canal Museum, the Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
If your summer travel plans include climbing famous landmarks, pack light, drink water, and maybe just admire them from a distance.
Spirituality, magic, and transformation are recurring themes in some of our favorite exhibitions on view, from Mestre Didi to Renée Stout.
Offering six- to ten-week stays with housing, studios, stipends, and mentorship to four artists each year, this residency in Atlanta, Georgia, is accepting applications until July 31.
For Darel Carey, it all begins with the line. From that most elemental figure, a work of art eventually blossoms. “Every single line I place is based off where the last line was, which is based off the line before it, which is based off the line before that."... Read the full article by Michelle Robertson by clicking above. The post For Artist Darel Carey: It All Starts With a Line first appeared...
Union members, workers, and local advocates rallied for months to secure funding to prevent further layoffs at the institution.
The encouraging kicks of a star teacher (James Jarvaise) and his star pupil (Henry Taylor) are on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles.
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' includes $40 million for "the procurement of statues" along with other major policy proposals.
Marisa Adesman’s paintings are both crystal clear and...
LaMonte’s sculptures explore ideas around femininity, resilience, and conventions of beauty throughout history. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and...
The designer discusses AI and hopes for the future.
She will be the second woman ever to lead the organization in its nearly 90-year history.
Hélio Menezes denounced what he described as "a lack of transparency."
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