Colossal
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Art & visual culture since 2010.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com
Camille Lemoine captures the familiar rhythms of small-town life, agriculture, and Scotland's legendarily mercurial weather in a touching portrait of belonging.
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Hu Yuehua's âWeaving Natureâ is a lush garden of indigo and ochre leaves, blooms, and growths stitched together from dyed cotton and linen.
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Like a miniature chapel with enough space for one person to stand comfortably, Judith Schaechterâs glowing âSuper/Natural" installation invites viewers to reflect on nature.
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Henry Wood's carved explorers are headed on a doomed mission. The title of the series? 'We went to Mars and it was a disaster.'
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Austin Bell photographed every single one of Hong Kongâs 2,549 basketball courts đ¸ đ
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Tonight! See you there â¨
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Chicago Premiere: Paint Me a Road Out of Here ¡ Luma
Join Colossal, Intuit Art Museum, and the Women's Center at DePaul University for the Chicago Premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winningâŚ
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Stephen Morrison, â147 Rue LĂŠon-Maurice Nordmannâ (2025)
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Spending the rest of the day right here đ đ§ââď¸
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Meditate to the Undulations of Baltic Sea Ice in Jan Erik Waider's Hypnotic Videos
Fresh ice formed a thin layer of faceted shapes on the rolling surface that moved gently without breaking apart.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/jan-erik-waider-baltic-sea-ice-video/
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How do artists fund their creative lives? Mason Currey's new book unpacks this enduring question, revealing how family money, day jobs, schemes, and more have buoyed artists through the ages. If you're in Chicago, join us on April 8 for a discussion and book signing!
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Business owners, you know the feeling! Siqi Song captures the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship in a stop-motion series.
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If it werenât for being so lightweight and crisp in their facets, Goran Konjevodâs elegant paper vases could at first glance be mistaken for thin porcelain.
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A strange scene for your Monday morning via Ben Zank
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Yayoi Kusama, âMy Soul Blooms Foreverâ (2019)
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On the top floor of Buffalo AKG Art Museumâs Gundlach Building, a vast body of work from 58 artists comes together. The impressive ensemble is both a survey of contemporary Latinx painting and a lively dialogue between a spectrum of artists.
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Janny Baek, âPlant Lifeâ (2025), stoneware, colored stoneware, and glaze, 21.5 x 15 x 15 inches
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Celebrating the first day of spring with these breezy swathes of fabric dancing above the landscape by Thomas Jackson đ
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A bold new structure has appeared in Cary, North Carolina: the latest sculptural pavilion by Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY.
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Weâre not crying, youâre crying!
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Listening to Swan Lake Awakens the Memory of a Former Ballerina with Alzheimerâs
Weâre not crying, youâre crying. Musicâs ability to improve the mood and boost cognitive skills in people with dementia has long been documented. âMusic is no luxury to them, but a necessity,â wrote n...
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/gonzalez-swan-lake/
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A lovely collection of carved wooden characters by Shinsuke Inoue for your Thursday â¨
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Known for his atmospheric photos, Andrew Mooreâs enigmatic images invite us into a slippage of time.
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Pejac, âArt in Veinsâ (2025)
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Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako.
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Joy Machine
8 days ago
'Life Forms,' our first solo exhibition with Janny Baek, opens this Friday at Joy Machine. Please stop by, the artist will be present.
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We're at the tail end of an incredibly rare superbloom in Death Valley, and this photographer captured the brilliant blossoms at their peak.
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Chris Perani's extreme macro photo of a Xylocopa latipes wing
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From a distance, Nespoon's patterns appear flawless, as if they could be printed. Up close, itâs clear the lace lines are sprayed and brushed by hand, emphasizing the handmade.
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We love a miniature and so did Queen Mary, consort to King George V between 1910 and 1936.
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You'll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World's Smallest Books at the V&A
The V&A's National Art Library is home to more than a million publications related to art, design, and performanceâeven really tiny ones.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/va-museum-national-art-library-miniature-books/
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How do we conceive of change? With fear, excitement, or uncertainty? As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions.
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What is a web to the spider? A home, a tool, simply something they cling to? TomĂĄs Saraceno presents these questions in a new segment from Art21.
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A Visit to TomĂĄs Saraceno's Berlin Studio Delves into a Deeply Empathetic Practice
A new segment from Art21 explores Argentinian artist TomĂĄs Saraceno's deeply collaborative practice in a visit to his studio.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/tomas-saraceno-art-21-film/
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Aunia Kahn, âDissolved Into The Spirit That Outruns Fearâ
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Alexander Endrullat has traded traditional Intaglio printing plates for discarded laptops.
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A forthcoming exhibition traces the photographic lineage between Gordon Parks and Beverly Price.
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Stunning new photos of the ghostly outline of an Icelandic glacier by Dani Guindo đ§ đŤď¸
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Matthew Simmonds, âCathedral: Studyâ (2022)
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These spectral birds, endemic to New Zealand, find new life in Fiona Pardingtonâs portraits.
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How does AI affect my electric bill? Why are groceries still so expensive? How is my farm going to survive?
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Mischief's Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information
New York-based ad agency Mischief reimagines NPR's logo into inquisitive prompts fueled by timely and urgent questions from listeners.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/mischief-npr-ad-campaign-logo-questions-curiosity/
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âGugusse et lâAutomate" is a 45-second slapstick film featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. It's a long-lost work by the iconic French director Georges MĂŠliès.
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Lost for More Than a Century, the First 'Sci-Fi' Film Ever Made Resurfaces
Around 1897, the French director Georges MÊliès made "Gugusse et l'Automate," a 45-second slapstick film featuring a magician and a robot.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/gugusse-et-lautomate-georges-melies/
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These dueling hares and a leaping toad topped the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards. See more of the winning shots today on Colossal.
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Did you know Noguchi designed playgrounds? Thanks to Eastend Western, we can now see these imaginative spaces in action.
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An Animated Look at Noguchi's Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built
"I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational," Isamu Noguchi said.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/isamu-noguchi-animated-unbuilt-playgrounds/
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What is emptiness in art? Is it solitude or serenity, absence or possibility, loss or quiet fullness? For Emptiness 2026, Biafarin invites artists worldwide to reveal the emotional and conceptual layers of solitude, serenity, and existential depth. Submit:
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16 days ago
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Have you visited the MBAD African Bead Museum? The creative vision of artist Olayami Dabls, the Detroit project is a stunning art environment for healing.
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Don't bite into that Butterfinger! Elizabeth Saloka's vibrant painted rocks and rubble are playful interpretations of everyday items.
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ZoĂŤ Buckman, âthe flowers that write me backâ (2021)
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A new home designed by Equipo de Arquitectura begs the question: is it a house in a forest or a forest in a house?
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Working in paint and metal, Ălvaro Urbano suspends fleeting moments of decay. đż
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The new book 'Lettres DĂŠcoratives: A Century of French Sign Paintersâ Alphabets' celebrates the vivacity and timelessness of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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17 days ago
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Joy Machine
18 days ago
Join us on March 20 for the opening of Janny Baek's solo Chicago debut at Joy Machine!
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A full-size Dakotaraptor in glass by Grant Garmezy đŚ
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Scale the dramatic verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrathâs dreamy photos â¨
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Thanks to The Metâs continued emphasis on imaging, we can now experience every detail in three-dimensional renderings of nearly 140 significant objects in its holdings.
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