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Patrick Dougherty’s ‘Stickwork’ Installations Conj...
For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for...
Connecticut Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in $2.1 ...
Connecticut antiques dealer David L. Johnson will be sentenced in October.
San Francisco Art School Renamed for Silicon Valle...
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Lauren Oyler on Florentina Holzinger, Watermill Ce...
Novelist Lauren Oyler's new essay in the New Yorker will make you feel like you've attended Florentina Holzinger's Venice Biennale Pavilion.
Sod's law: cartoonists map Britain's rudest slang ...
Cult cartoonists team up with University of Sheffield experts to record how the whole country swears, one region at a time. If you've ever doodled something rude in a notebook during a boring meet...
The creativity tax: why the boldest ideas rarely m...
Every agency claims to want mavericks, but plenty of creatives have learned that a wild idea is only welcome if it arrives from the right mouth. There's a weird ritual that plays out in creative s...
Five joyful objects for high summer, from sandals ...
A carafe shaped like a pill and ping pong paddles you can hang on a wall. Here are five things from Malika Favre and George Wu's bazaar that we'd happily blow the summer budget on. You weren't loo...
Tomorrowland's stunning designs highlight what cre...
Belgium's biggest dance festival keeps building on a scale most events can't match, at a time when dozens of UK and European festivals are folding for good. If you've never heard of Tomorrowland,...
Sue Tompkins’s Concrete Poetry Frees Words from Sy...
At King’s Leap, documents and audio works perform an “unspectacular yet remarkable” play with language
French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track ...
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans has launched a campaign using American Western-style posters to raise awareness about hundreds of paintings looted during the Nazi invasion.
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Federal Advisory Council to Slacken Rules Around M...
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal organization largely staffed by recent Trump appointees, has submitted an internal draft outlining proposed revisions to longstanding policy. These revisions would scale back restrictions on modifying national landmarks. Specifically, the ACHP...
Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Chall...
The New York federal appeals court ruled on procedural grounds that artist Michael Hayden had waited too long to file suit.
Debra Broz’s Kitschy ‘Superorganisms’ Are Both Fam...
The Seattle-based artist's quirky sculptures are made from from found figurines. 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...
The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Wit...
Instead, visitors will have to admire the gallery's ornate ceiling paintings and wall tapestries.
Louvre Reopens Now-Empty Apollo Gallery Nine Month...
Nine months after a brazen jewel heist left the Louvre scrambling, the museum has finally reopened the Apollo Gallery, where four masked thieves stole eight items valued collectively at $102 million. However, per reports, the space that was once...
Long-lost Historic Murals Uncovered in Chile
Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Escámez, long considered lost, are reemerging in Chillán’s city hall (Chile). Currently in the meticulous process of restoration, the first of the historic artworks is slated for completion in December 2027, ARTnews reports. The...
Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation Announces Major G...
Major changes are taking place at the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, which recently revealed that it has received a bequest of Pousette-Dart’s work by the artist’s late widow, Evelyn. The foundation is still examining the items included in Evelyn’s bequest,...
If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, Th...
There are risks to museums’ increasing enmeshment in the marketplace, said one expert.






















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