Colossal

MAY 8, 2024

All images from ‘Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II'(Aperture, 2024), © 2024 Zanele Muholi Following their lauded 2018 monograph , South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi has released a second book collecting the most recent additions to their series Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness.

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

All images © DelMonico Books, shared with permission “Historically, books about contemporary Native and Indigenous art have often been composed of academic essays illustrated with artworks by Indigenous makers,” Jeffrey Gibson ( previously ) says in the introduction to An Indigenous Present. Find your copy on Bookshop.

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Colossal

MARCH 18, 2024

Jillian Tackaberry, “Another Dimension” (2021), acrylic on embroidery Art is in the air. The Other Art Fair returns for its sixth Chicago edition, taking place April 11 to 14 at Artifact Events in Ravenswood. Happening across a bustling art scene weekend, this is where you can buy directly from artists.

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Just Creative

MAY 23, 2023

From 2021 to 2031, it is only anticipated to increase by 3% annually. Grid Systems in Graphic Design book is the foundational text for graphic artists. This book serves as a manual for typographers and graphic artists. Niggli Verlag (Publisher) $54.14 The demand for these experts has remained strong over time.

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Colossal

MAY 9, 2024

Image courtesy of Ars Electronica Since its establishment in 2016, the VH AWARD , hosted by Hyundai Motor Group, has offered a platform for emerging media artists to showcase their artistic expression and discuss diverse cultural and socio-political issues. The five finalists will each receive a $25,000 grant to produce new artworks.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We spent the last year collaborating with creatives from every corner of the planet to publish nearly 700 articles and interviews that range from art, design, and photography to science and history. And in case you missed it, make sure you check out Colossal’s favorite short films and books from 2021, too.

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Colossal

MAY 8, 2023

Andrea De Luigi (Artist Residency Alumnus ’22), “Against All Odds” (2021), acrylic, ink, relief, and collage on canvas Ready to take your practice and creativity to new heights? About the School of Visual Arts School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers, and creative professionals for seven decades.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Before we (eagerly) say goodbye to 2021, we’re taking a look back at the year, starting with the books we covered on Colossal. Throughout the past 12 months, we published dozens of articles centered on new artist monographs and tomes surveying broader topics that range from art and design to science and history.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For artists and art organizations, it’s the next frontier. It’s an effort to accelerate the integration of technology with the arts to offer communities greater access and foster meaningful connections between people and place. To learn more about Knight Foundation’s arts program, visit kf.org/arts.

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Colossal

APRIL 24, 2023

Kefan Shi , MFA ’23 (Illustration Practice) ( @langshiart ), “Garden” (2021) As the premiere visual storytelling form, illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a truly interdisciplinary practice using experimentation, reflection, and point of view. What will you create?

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Design Milk

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the international glass center, he’s led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. He’s been the recipient of many awards, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and 13 honorary doctorates. If he weren’t a renowned artist, Dale does have a few other careers in mind.

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Colossal

MARCH 7, 2022

Since launching in 2010, Colossal has published thousands of articles featuring emerging and established artists. Our goal has always been to support a vast array of creative endeavors and highlight the beauty of the world around us, and we’ve prioritized accessibility to art in all its forms over clicks.

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Noupe

MAY 28, 2021

In the modern world, the main challenge for contemporary artists is getting noticed. To become a famous artist and start selling paintings, you need to promote yourself. Due to the pandemic, traditional exhibitions of young artists in galleries remain in question and attract only a limited circle of people interested in art.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

With the profession having survived, even prospered through 2020, we’re fairly sure it can cope with anything that 2021 can throw at us. A unique collaboration between lettering artist and designer Craig Black and creative type director Pedro Arilla , FS Renaissance is a display stencil font… but not a traditional stencil design.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

The new event is the first of its kind to recognise the art of music photography and will be judged by an esteemed global panel of industry creatives. The Time of Grime, published in 2010, has been hailed as a classic of British documentary photography. "I

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Colossal

MARCH 20, 2023

Encompassing more than 60 quilts, sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and assemblages by 34 artists from the mid-20th-century to the present, the exhibition is drawn largely from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers continues at the Royal Academy of Arts in London through June 18. centimeters.

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Colossal

MAY 10, 2024

All images courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles/New York, shared with permission Marisa Adesman unsettles domestic stability by twisting common sights into the surreal. “Midnight Snack” (2021), oil on canvas, 20 x 14 inches “All’s Fair…” (2021), oil on canvas, 18 x 25.25

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

All images © Alexey Kondakov, shared with permission Alexey Kondakov stretches the notion that art is timeless. In his uncanny Art History in Contemporary Life series ( previously ), Kondakov plucks figures from neoclassical and romantic paintings and places them into modern settings, blurring era, style, and medium.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“Jill’s Keep, Rhinebeck, NY” (2021). See more on the artist’s website and Instagram. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. Whiskey Point and Other Tales opens November 16 and continues through January 4, 2024.

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Spine Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

For the first time in its decades of existence, the Washington State-based independent press Empty Bowl has published the work of an Asian American female author. By the beginning of 2021, she knew she had enough poems for a book. Design: Lauren Grosskopf, Art: April Gornik. Photo: Daniel Carrillo.

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Colossal

MARCH 26, 2024

“Acquiesce” (2021), oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. From decadent bouquets that overflow from their vases to a pair of rain-speckled magnolia branches, the subjects of the Portland, Oregon-based artist’s oil paintings are portrayed in hyperrealistic detail. Stay up to date by following the artist on Instagram.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Spiders” (2021) In “The Tired Lioness,” Rasmussen pulls inspiration from a precious family album, particularly a page where her mother captioned one image, “The tired mom.” ” The artist says the people photographed “look a bit off. Find more on the artist’s website and Instagram.

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“Symbiose” (2021), Cransac, France. The French artist, also known as Ratur, draws on a background in graphic design and intimacy with nature to blend realistic features with fantastical, botanical explosions and abstract fields of color. “Every wall is challenging and different!

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Colossal

DECEMBER 20, 2023

All images courtesy of Kirstie Macleod, shared with permission In her early 20s, artist Kirstie Macleod became intimately aware of the ways working with a shared purpose has the potential to form immediate bonds. Part of the project is to ensure that artists are compensated and have the opportunity to sell more of their work in the future.

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Colossal

JULY 13, 2023

 Syrian-German filmmaker and animator Waref Abu Quba takes viewers on a fast-paced tour through the ornate art and architecture of Istanbul in his short film “ Takrar.” “When I first visited Istanbul in 2021, I was captivated by its timeless beauty and decided to capture it through my lens,” Quba says.

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Colossal

JUNE 28, 2023

“Serenity” (2021). Long-exposure photography has been the Helsinki-based artist’s medium of choice since 2008, having spawned a robust repertoire of plants and animals both real and imagined. Top right: “Wild Ones” (2021). “First, I want to do some simple sketches on paper. .

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Colossal

OCTOBER 4, 2023

All images courtesy of Wara Art Festival In Japan’s Niigata prefecture, cooler weather marks the advent of enormous straw creatures materializing from the fields and stalking the changing landscape. Otherwise, check out the works in the 2021 edition on Colossal. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 21, 2024

In 2021, Boler was named GLAMOUR's Women of the Year Technology Gamechanger. Since 2021, she has been part of the Board of Trustees for D&AD in the U.K. She has an unerring sense of the contemporary aesthetic and is known for blending sophistication and playfulness through her deep knowledge of art, music, dance and film.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Nimbus Kunstmuseum Hal” (2021).
Photo All images courtesy of the artist and Ronchini Gallery, shared with permission For less than ten seconds, Berndnaut Smilde ’s floating sculptures transform galleries, halls, and warehouses into uncanny spaces where indoors meets out. Photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.

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Colossal

APRIL 27, 2023

All images © Hera, courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery, shared with permission German-Pakistani artist Jasmin Siddiqui, who works as Hera and was half of the street art duo known as Herakut , brings a new series of scavengers to Corey Helford Gallery this month in tHERApy room 2. inches Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Home Sweet Home” (2021), watercolor and gouache on cotton paper, 100 x 70 centimeters. Find more of the artist’s work on his site and Instagram. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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UX Collective

JULY 10, 2021

Modern HTML and CSS features to make CSS art accessible for everyone CSS art has been a thing since the creation of CSS itself. But it has a big problem: CSS art is inherently not accessible. Instead, we will focus on some tips and best practices to make that CSS art more accessible for everyone. It’s a win-win.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A top-down perspective for art, also known as limited editions, and a bottom-up perspective for UX, also known as utility design MoMA acquires Refik Anadol’s AI powered Unsupervised (image source: Yeo) Congratulations, Refik Anadol! Isn't that what NFTs do for art, and what does art do for NFTs? source: glen ) Why not?

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Colossal

MARCH 6, 2024

For London-based artist Leonardo Ulian ( previously ), the networks and connections of today’s technologies provide an unending well of inspiration. centimeters Detail of “Technological Mandala 164 – Continuous Orbit” (2022) Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

All images shared © Elias Sime, courtesy of GRIMM and James Cohan Gallery, shared with permission Thousands of microchips, terminals, nails, letter keys, and lengths of wire transform into spectacular, monumental sculptures by acclaimed Ethiopian artist Elias Sime.

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Shillington

MAY 30, 2023

Read on for some insights from Sam Fraser, the Sydney recipient of our 2021 full scholarship! But to summarise it, I really want to work at the intersection of art, music, fashion, publishing and pop culture. Our 2022 Scholarship applications are now open —not sure if you’re ready to dive in, or how to begin?

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

All images © Patrick Bergsma, shared with permission Resisting the confines of porcelain vases, Dutch artist Patrick Bergsma ’s vibrant bonsai sculptures illustrate the strength and resiliency of nature. In his ongoing Expanding China Series, the artist references the rich, global history of porcelain.

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