Austin Opera’s moving production of Fiddler on the Roof grounds itself in lived tradition, to great effect.

The Texas African American Photography (TAAP) Archive is a visual record of Black life in Texas since the 1870s. The collection is 60,000 images strong, ranging from the earliest tin types and crayon drawings, through the 20th century, to contemporary digital photography. Typically operating small studios that provided portraiture, promotional images and event documentation, many of the photographers featured worked within their communities to develop an enduring vision of hope and uplift. The TAAP first began with Alan Govenar’s Living Texas Blues, which collated images of blues musicians from the early 20th century. He began the project in 1984, after realising that these figures were the last...

TOTEM DE LUZ by kutarq studio: a kinetic lighting object
 
TOTEM DE LUZ by kutarq studio is conceived as a kinetic lighting object that explores the relationship between light, movement, and spatial perception. Positioned between sculpture and functional design, the piece integrates mechanical components to enable adjustable illumination through physical interaction.
 
The structure is composed of stainless steel, nautical tensioners, pulleys, and counterweights, combined with an onyx diffuser and a glass sphere reflector. These elements form a visible mechanical system that allows the light source to shift vertically through a double-pulley mechanism. The movement of the spotlight alters both the direction...

Karajan’s 1959 Aïda was once treated like gospel, a wall of plush Vienna Philharmonic sound and star power that critics dutifully genuflected before.

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Harold “Doc” Edgerton (1903-1990), was a pioneer of high-speed imaging who made it possible to see what the human eye cannot. Frequently cited as “the man who froze time,” the MIT professor of electrical engineering transformed an obscure laboratory instrument – the stroboscope – into powerful flash systems, laying the groundwork for the kind of flash technology found in cameras today. MIT Museum’s aptly-named Freezing Time is, according to Director Michael John Gorman, “the first exhibition to really interrogate Edgerton’s experimental journey in developing his innovative image-making processes.” The display mines the museum’s vast holdings to foreground the apparatus and experiments...

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Non si tratta di una semplice retrospettiva del collettivo Opiemme (Torino, 1998), Senza bandiere v.3.0. Divide et impera è piuttosto una dichiarazione d’intenti, una poetica del dissenso visualizzato, che trasforma le opere in scenari di resistenza simbolica. Alla galleria Marignana Arte di Venezia sono esposti alcuni lavori realizzati negli ultimi quindici anni, che insieme funzionano come un manifesto artistico, poetico, sociale e insieme profondamente umano, dove ogni gesto e parola tracciata diventa un atto di lettura critica del presente. Il progetto prende forma attraverso le opere di Davide e Laura Bonatti, Margherita Berardinelli e Stefano Campano, membri del collettivo, riuniti in una pratica...

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Children’s Village by Article 25 in the Kilimanjaro region
 
Article 25, in collaboration with Tanzanian partners, has completed Kao La Amani Children’s Village in northern Tanzania. Conceived as a fully off-grid settlement, the project combines family-scale housing with shared learning and recreational facilities, using local materials and renewable energy systems to support long-term operation.
 
Located in the Kilimanjaro region, where approximately 8% of children are orphaned, the village provides accommodation for 60 children. The masterplan is organized around six domestic-scale cottages, each overseen by a live-in caregiver, and a central social building that accommodates dining, study, games,...

From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that extends to the pages’ edges, this vivid survey is a celebratory, playful object in itself. Rainbow Dreams features numerous artists previously featured on Colossal, from Nina Chanel Abney and Nick Cave to DRIFT and Katharina Grosse, among many others. The book is slated for release on April 2, and you can pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop....

A.CO.LAB Architects renovates 1969 Seoul residence
 
Painter N’s House by A.CO.LAB Architects is a renovation project of a single-family residence originally constructed in 1969 in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, the project focuses on preserving the existing structure and adapting it to meet contemporary spatial requirements. The design approach treats the building’s aged and irregular condition as a record of lived experience, integrating new architectural systems within its historical fabric.
 
The renovation addresses both the lifestyle of an artist couple who had inhabited the house for more than a decade and the broader character of the surrounding neighborhood. Instead...

Davóne Tines leads a thought-provoking program in San Francisco reconsidering patriotism, dissent, and spirituality as the United States faces down its quarter millennium crisis.

La Monnaie’s flamboyantly busy new production of Benvenuto Cellini reads more burlesque than Berlioz.

These five artists, each longlisted for the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, use sculpture as a testing ground for ideas that cannot be contained on a flat surface. They often expand beyond the gallery walls, instead placed in public spaces, creating art that engages with the masses. The selected artists treat three-dimensional form as a way to examine systems — economic, social and institutional — that shape daily life. They invite us to reconnect with the environment and the materials it produces, and recognise our place in the world. Edina Seleskovic  Sarajevo Olympic Journey (2024)  Edina Seleskovic is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres on creating inclusive, participatory experiences that...

Baron&Vicario and Domingo Seminario De Col present VICÚS
 
Barón&Vicario introduces VICÚS, a collection developed in collaboration with Peruvian architect Domingo Seminario De Col. The project references the VICÚS culture of northern Peru and examines the relationship between material, origin, and temporality through a contemporary design language.
 
The collection establishes a dialogue between Mexico and Peru, connecting both contexts through shared material practices and craft traditions. Within this framework, design operates as a medium for cultural exchange, linking historical references with present-day production. Resin, one of the brand’s primary materials, becomes the central vehicle for...

On this Valentine's Day, I'm thinking about the place of art in love, and how artistic observation, appreciation, and disagreement have helped me cultivate compassion in my own relationship. My partner and I are both passionate, hard-headed people (I'm an Aries, he's a Taurus, pray for us), and when we're at odds, neither of us is good at surrendering. But in our shared experiences of art — in conversation and in quiet reflection — we bare the soulful sensitivity that is the fertile soil of empathy. Our edges soften; our breath deepens. We make room for nuance. Art, as Agnes Martin so precisely said, “is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”In this...

La ceramica come materia che conserva memoria del gesto, come superficie su cui si stratificano segni e tempo, come forma ambivalente tra l’arcaico e il contemporaneo: è questo il territorio espressivo in cui Fiorenza Pancino (1966, S. Stino di Livenza, Venezia) situa la propria ricerca, radicata nella tradizione faentina ma capace di trascenderla per farsi riflessione esistenziale. La personale “Oro vivo”, curata da Margherita Maccaferri negli spazi di BoA Spazio Arte, riunisce un corpus di opere recenti attraverso cui l’artista restituisce un percorso di alchimia spirituale volto a trasformare il dolore, la rabbia e le emozioni più oscure in una forma di bellezza contemplativa.
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Our bodies are witness to everything we experience. Consider each scar, tattoo, wrinkle, stretchmark, freckle – they’re a visual record of our lives, mapping out moments of pain, joy or the inevitable passage of time. They’re also inherently political: to have a woman’s body is to experience society differently to those who present as male; to be seen as conventionally attractive will often garner more attention; to have a skin colour other than white is to become entangled in complicated and oftentimes traumatic histories of racism and prejudice. Our physical selves are tied up with some of the biggest questions of our time: How can we make sense of our bodies in a political world? Who is allowed to...

A Tropical house Shaped by Vaults
 
Encasa Archstudio completes its Vault House in Kerala, India as a three story tropical residence that brings exposed concrete vaults into dialogue with sunlight and greenery. Conceived for a multi generational household comprising a couple, their daughter, and parents, the home reflects a clear client ambition for a unique yet livable environment shaped by daylight, breezes, and plant-life.
 
Located in the heart of town, the house precisely negotiates level changes of its sloping site. A basement is woven into the terrain rather than concealed within it to create an additional layer of sunlit living space.
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What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil? It is an enduring question — and one I rarely hear asked of the medieval world. Looking to the Middle Ages for answers to the perennial puzzles of life can seem quaint, even artificial, a long reach across centuries marked by violence, hierarchy, and exclusion. And yet medieval culture offers a way of thinking about love that still speaks to the present. If love is most urgently tested in moments of strain and upheaval, then it is in those moments — where care is stressed or obscured — that its meaning comes most clearly into view.In our own moment, we are living amid forms of exhaustion that make sustained attention difficult: humanitarian emergencies...

French police have detained nine people in relation to a ticketing fraud scheme that may have cost the Louvre €10 million ($12 million). The Paris prosecutors’ office reports that two Louvre staffers, several tour guides, and a person thought to be the organizer of the scheme are among those being held. “Based on the information available to […]

The Hammer Museum  in Los Angeles has announced multidisciplinary artist Ali Eyal as the winner of the 2025 Mohn Award. The institution presents the laurel every two years, in connection with its Made in LA Biennial. The prize honors underrecognized and emerging artists from the Los Angeles area, whose work the biennial was established to support. Eyal will receive $100,000 and […]

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a statement released by Leiden University, a groundbreaking ancient DNA study has provided new information about a pivotal transitional period in prehistoric Europe. The research underscored the remarkable genetic stability in the Low Countries and shed new light on the mysterious origins of the so-called Bell Beaker culture. A team of geneticists and archaeologists analyzed the genomes of 112 individuals who lived in the Rhine–Meuse region of the Low Countries—today’s Netherlands, Belgium, and northwestern Germany—between 8500 and 1700 b.c. The data revealed that when Europe’s first farmers arrived from Anatolia around 4,500 years ago, Low Countries...

The Italian curator and critic Eugenio Viola, who has led the museum since 2019, says he was let go after raising concerns about working conditions at the institution

New York politicians and activists hoisted a large Pride flag to the Stonewall National Monument’s flagpole on Thursday afternoon, February 12, in defiance of a federal directive to take down any flags or pennants that aren’t the United States flag or from the Department of the Interior.It takes a lot to get New Yorkers to stand outdoors in subfreezing temperatures for more than an hour, but the Trump administration’s onslaught on an iconic gay rights symbol in the West Village mobilized a crowd to Christopher Park.“Whose streets? Our streets! Whose park? Our park! Whose neighborhood? Our neighborhood!” chanted several hundred people, who spilled into Christopher and Grove streets.National Park...

A sweeping fraud scheme targeting ticket sales at the Louvre was uncovered earlier this week, leaving the scandal-plagued museum facing losses estimated at more than €10 million. The Palace of Versailles was also implicated in the scheme, which involved the sale of counterfeit tickets and the overbooking of guided tours, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday. French authorities shared that nine people have been arrested, including two museum employees, several tour guides, and one individual suspected of organizing the scheme. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that more than €957,000 in cash—plus €67,000 in foreign currency—was seized, in addition to €486,000 in separate...

LOS ANGELES — The fantastical 2008 film Ponyo by celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli tells the story of a fish-like creature, Ponyo, who dreams of becoming a human girl after befriending a young boy named Sosuke, much to the dismay of her wizard father. Nearly two decades after its release, the film is being reexamined in a new interactive exhibition. Studio Ghibli’s PONYO debuts February 14 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, which opened in 2021 with a Miyazaki retrospective. This show aims to convey the film’s whimsy and wonder while examining its profound significance through Miyazaki’s drawings and other elements behind its production.“He set out...

After 30 years at the Guardian, chief art critic Adrian Searle is stepping down from the role he has held since 1996. The Guardian announced today that Searle will leave his full-time role at the end of March. His final article, a look back at the past three decades and what he has learned, will appear on April 1. He will continue to contribute occasional pieces. Searle joined the Guardian after transitioning from a career as a painter. Over the next three decades, he became one of the most influential voices in British art criticism, writing about contemporary art with authority, clarity and wit. He played a pivotal role during the rise of the Young British Artists in the 1990s, offering early support for...

Il Principe burial on display at the Museum of Ligurian Archaeology, Genoa, Italy GENOA, ITALY—A Paleolithic teenaged boy whose remains were discovered in northwest Italy's Ardene Candide cave in 1942 immediately earned the nickname Il Principe, or “the Prince,” because of the richness of the grave goods found in his 27,500-year-old burial. Researchers noticed that he had also suffered traumatic injuries to his upper body, but at the time they were unable to establish exactly what had happened to him. According to a statement issued by the University of Montreal, an international team of researchers has finally determined that the young man was likely attacked by a bear. The team reexamined the boy’s...

The exhibition was intended to be a homecoming for artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez who grew up in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area. The excitement built when he got the first batch of images showing his traveling solo exhibition being installed at the University of North Texas’s CVAD Gallery. Quiñonez was looking forward to receiving images of the work being fully installed and was working on managing the RSVPs for an opening reception to take place this month. Then, silence. Quiñonez continued to follow up with the university gallery’s director Stefanie Dlugosz-Acton. The exhibition was scheduled to open on February 3, but Quiñonez is unclear if that actually happened. It wasn’t until he...

Upon entering Participant Inc. gallery in Manhattan's Chinatown, a pitch-black embrace invites us find one another in the dark. As our eyesight adjusts, a constellation of works illuminates [minna|منا]of us, a group exhibition open through March 15 featuring queer artists of the Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian diasporas. Wafts of burning incense mingle with the instrumentals of a commissioned sound mix by Palestinian musician Falyakon to direct visitors through the show, which Palestinian-Jordanian-Egyptian artist Ridikkuluz curated as a space for anti-colonial futurism across tradition and geography.“The show is about giving the pen back to the writer, giving the paintbrush...

Black pigment layer on teeth from Dong Xa, Vietnam DONG XA, VIETNAM—Although many people across the world today strive to maintain pearly white teeth, this has not always been the case everywhere. For centuries, in various parts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, certain cultures actually viewed blackened teeth as a sign of beauty. This is particularly the case in Vietnam, where tooth blackening has been well documented in modern times, but archaeologists have long wondered about when the practice first began. According to a Science report, a new study suggests it dates back at least 2,000 years. A research team recently examined examples of discolored teeth found on individuals buried at the late...

The New York collector Black is revealed to have bought five of the artist’s pieces

Since George Washington, it has been customary for presidents to have an official portrait—usually an oil painting—unveiled shortly after they leave office. That was to be the case for President Donald Trump, who sat for a portrait by artist Ronald Sherr just after leaving office in 2021. There is just one complication: Trump now wants a new one. Sherr’s portrait was ready to be accepted by the National Portrait Gallery, which maintains the nation’s presidential portraits, in 2022. But by then Trump had already announced his bid for the presidency in 2024. The gallery does not typically hang a presidential portrait until the president has permanently left office, according to the New York Times. Now,...

The former treasurer of the Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin—touted as “the only building still standing from the dawn of electricity” on its website—admitted to stealing $70,000 from the institution. According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, Steven Jahnke confessed to embezzlement and now faces one count of theft in a business setting. As reported by the local radio station WTAQ, “board members became suspicious of transactions apparently not related to museum operations, including cruises, vacation travel and vehicle repair. Additionally, some accounts deposited through the community foundation were depleted, despite having a restricted status.” Other suspicious...

Adrian Searle has described writing for the paper as “an exhilarating ride”

Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium. The artist recently published a book collecting his projects from the last decade, and you can find explore an archive of these pieces on Instagram. 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 Surreal Dreams...

By not going down more obvious routes, the exhibition, which places nine Confederate monuments in dialogue with 19 artists, avoids preachiness

Former home of painter Ary Scheffer celebrates the Romantic period through art, music and soundscapes

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Christof Loy’s production of Pablo Luna’s gender-bending Orientalist farce Benamor proves to be irresistible.

We’re thrilled to invite you all to the Chicago premiere of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, the award-winning documentary from Aubin Pictures directed by Catherine Gund. Along with Intuit Art Museum and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at DePaul University, Colossal is co-hosting a screening of the film followed by a conversation between film participant Leah Faria and our editorial director Grace Ebert on March 25. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited. Featuring artists Faith Ringgold and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Paint Me a Road Out of Here uncovers the whitewashed history of Ringgold’s masterpiece, “For the Women’s House,” following its 50-year journey from Rikers...

Activist. Iconoclast. Provocateur. English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) is synonymous with many words, but one rules supreme: punk. Now, NGV pairs her up with Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942), founder of Comme des Garçons, an equally radical Japanese creative force whose driving philosophy has long been to “break the idea of clothes.” The pair of “self-taught rebels” were born a year apart in different countries and cultural contexts. Yet, as NGV reveals, they shared many remarkable commonalities. Perhaps most striking is that their debut runway collections, both launched in 1981, revolved around the same title and theme: pirates. It makes for an intriguing curatorial premise. NGV’s...

Nel suo lavoro più recente, Stephanie Temma Hier indaga il confine poroso tra pittura e scultura, facendo dialogare immagini dipinte e strutture ceramiche in composizioni ibride che mettono in crisi la bidimensionalità dell’immagine. Swan Song si configura come un percorso unitario, in cui cornici, oggetti domestici e figure ricorrenti concorrono a costruire un immaginario sospeso tra quotidiano e straniamento. Attraverso una pratica che intreccia temporalità differenti – l’immediatezza della pittura e la lentezza irreversibile della ceramica – la mostra riflette sui temi della trasformazione, del consumo e del passaggio del tempo, evocando una fine che non coincide con una chiusura, ma con...

Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones. Similar to 20th-century Surrealist paintings, Makó’s images delve into uncanny realms and evoke a dreamlike sense of unfettered imagination. It’s no surprise that the photographer was once a painter and has suggested that these impulses may be a...

CHINCHA VALLEY, PERU—According to a statement released by the University of Sydney, seabird guano may have been a major factor in the rise of Peru’s precolonial Chincha Kingdom, a powerful coastal polity that reached an estimated 100,000 people. Yet archaeologists have often wondered how they were able to support a population that large, since they inhabited one of the driest regions on earth. However, analysis of 35 maize samples recovered from tombs revealed the plants had surprisingly high nitrogen levels, far beyond what was found in the region's natural soil. Researchers now believe that in order to create optimal farming conditions, the Chincha people were harvesting seabird guano from offshore...

The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has named the sixty-one artists and collectives slated to participate in the Fifty-Ninth Carnegie International, to take place May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027. Titled “If the word we,” this edition of the quadrennial event is the largest to date and will appear at the Carnegie as well as various institutions across the […]

Lararium in the Archaeological Quarter of Cologne, Germany COLONGE, GERMANY—Finestre Sull’Arte reports that during new construction work for MiQua, the future LVR-Jewish Museum currently being built near the city’s historic center, excavations revealed several important and well-preserved structures associated with the site’s early Roman settlement. These include an exceptional second-century a.d. lararium, a type of domestic shrine dedicated to protective household deities known as Lares. This altar was located in the area of the former Praetorium, which served as the palace for the Roman governor, and is the first of its kind ever found north of the Alps. The archaeological team also uncovered the...

The Queens Museum in New York has announced Debra Wimpfheimer as its new executive director. A native of Queens, Wimpfheimer has worked for the institution on and off since 2002, most recently as deputy director. She will succeed Sally Tallant, who is set to become the director of London’s Hayward Gallery this July. Wimpfheimer has held senior development positions at the Museum […]

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In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often manipulated with cyanotype patterns or dyed with natural hues such as indigo and turmeric. They make kites “that speak the language of clothing,” blurring definitions of craft, art, garments, and acts of play. “October 8th 2:56-3:56pm Wicker Park; a picnic together // we probably shouldn’t feed the sparrows” (2022), tannic acid-toned...

The inaugural edition, opening in November 2026, positions Doha as a transnational cultural hub through multi-site exhibitions examining water, ecology and global exchange LEFT TO RIGHT: Ruba Katrib, Mark Rappolt, Tom Eccles, and Shabbir Hussain […]

A two-venue exhibition in San Francisco traces Black lineage, movement and collective remembrance through installation, film and printmaking. Trina Michelle Robinson, A still from Transposing Landscapes – A Requiem for Charles Young, 2025. Courtesy of […]

A travelling exhibition, presented in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz, brings drawing, lithography, and sculpture into conversation in Nairobi. LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Armitage, Vision II (detail), 2022. Lithograph on paper, 70 x 59cm. Maria Lassnig, […]

 
What does love look like? Sometimes it comes with lust and desire, sometimes with deep-rooted care from the heart, and other times it’s a disguise for something that isn’t love at all.
Love can be found in the quieter gestures of everyday life. It can look like kindness, the people and places you hold dear, moments of care and support, or the small comforts that bring you peace: a cup of tea, a single flower, a familiar corner of home.
DO YOU LIKE LOVE? is a metaphor for the things that bring us joy and comfort, and for what we offer others to help them feel the same. Within the pages of DO YOU LIKE LOVE?, photographers answer the question – do you like love?
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The city’s first Pan-African contemporary art gallery launches at Minnesota Street Project, presenting artists from across the continent and its diasporas. Vusi Beauchamp, Tempest, 2022. Mixed Medium on Canvas, 200 x 300cm. Courtesy of the […]

C’è stata anche la dolorosa questione iraniana nell’appena conclusa 49esima edizione di Arte Fiera a Bologna, anno domini 2026 (la prima firmata dal nuovo direttore Davide Ferri). Il rinnovato padiglione esterno Esprit Nouveau, esatta riproduzione di quello parigino firmato da Le Corbusier, ha ospitato infatti una (molto) concettuale e potente installazione/performance dell’artista franco-iraniana Chalisée Naamani. Chalisée Naamani,”Wardrobe”, Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, 2026. Un progetto di Arte Fiera in collaborazione con Fondazione Furla,  ph credits Team99, courtesy l’artista e Ciaccia Levi (Parigi-Milano)
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