Experience design firm Murmur Ring, in partnership with Empathy and the Institute of Design, invites artists, designers, makers, and creatives of all kinds to join the Reclaiming Value: Sacred Valley Design Immersion from June 15 to 19, 2026, in Peru’s Sacred Valley. The Colossal team previously joined Murmur Ring for a transformative week-long immersion in Oaxaca, Mexico, and looks forward to joining this excursion, as well. This is not a tourist program. Mumur Ring’s Immersions are creative exchanges born from years of research and relationship-building. Intimate site visits with Peruvian makers and innovators offer rare, behind-the-scenes access to the perspectives, techniques, and community-centered...

Hyundai introduces off-road SUV Crater Concept
 
Hyundai unveils the Crater Concept, an off-road SUV that can double as an emergency response vehicle with its fire extinguisher, first aid kit, roof lights, and crash pad. A new design study from Hyundai Motor America, the vehicle is shown for the first time at AutoMobility LA 2025 in Los Angeles, which remains on site until November 30th, 2025. Here, viewers can see the exterior of the vehicle, which the design team calls as ‘art of steel.’ It is because the SUV becomes the platform to showcase how steel can move, bend, and hold shape. The body lines follow this idea, using smooth surfaces and precise edges to show how steel behaves when pressure is...

If you find the world is smoldering, come on home to Green River. Greta Thunberg and three dozen members of the environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion turned Venice’s Grand Canal lime green on Monday to decry the scant progress governments around the world have made toward phasing out fossil fuels.   Extinction Rebellion’s waterborne demonstration, which made the City of Water resemble St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago, was one of several protests at lakes, fountains, and waterways in 10 cities throughout Italy following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil.  Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined members of Extinction Rebellion for the “Stop the Ecocide” action in...

As artists continue to feel the impacts of grant withdrawals and exhibition cancellations under the Trump administration, New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher held an oversight hearing on alleged censorship in the arts sector on Thursday, November 20. The hearing featured testimony from artists and cultural leaders, including New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo; Asian American Arts Alliance Executive Director Lisa Gold; and Elizabeth Larison, director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship.  The group called upon the City Council to address growing uncertainty, including the federal government’s abrupt mass...

Following a fraught selection cycle, the US Department of State on Monday confirmed that Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale.  The prestigious exhibition opens next May, when scores of curators, collectors, and journalists descend on the lagoon city to judge not only the quality of art on display, but the politics communicated by each national pavilion at the world’s top international art event. In the context of the ideological re-weaving of arts and culture under President Trump, the choice of the US representative offers a prism through which to read his priorities, especially when this year’s guidelines were updated to include that...

An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaving behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture animation, music and more

Enigmatic artist and musician Llyn Foulkes passed away on Thursday, November 20, at his home in Los Angeles. The news was confirmed by his daughter, Jenny Foulkes, who noted that earlier reports misstated the date of his death. He was 91 years old. Across his seven-decade career, Foulkes created paintings, assemblage pieces, constructions, and music that mine American history, cartoons, politics, and his own autobiography in a diverse oeuvre, mixing dark humor and scathing critique with a tactile vitality. He was a mercurial artist, never wanting to be pinned down with one style, though he was perhaps best known for his Bloody Head paintings, portraits whose subjects looked as if their heads had been split...

The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEO Sasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft,” is the latest twist in a saga that began earlier this month when the institution, until […]

Berlin is not a place where you feel. Feel too deeply here and you’ll either pack your bags or lose your mind. The city hums with a seductive aura: gritty, unflinching, addictive. Sometimes I think the devil lives here, dressed in black, DJing liberation for lost souls with no rhythm. Since I moved here during the COVID-19 pandemic, people have greeted my lack of enthusiasm for a fascist country and its marginally less fascist capital with disbelief. Berlin is fascist — but sexy fascist. The kind where a party with a darkroom passes for liberation. The kind where, if I were attacked with a stake in public for being a shapeshifting, time-travelling trickster in the body of a dark-skinned Black trans...

Although it spared Kingston, the storm caused $9bn in damage and wiped out most of the heritage buildings and museums in the areas it touched

What happens when abstract art gets inventive, playful, even rebellious? A handful of current exhibitions offer compelling answers. Painting in Space brings together four titans of abstraction — Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella — whose visions of space, flatness, and opticality are as radical now as they were decades ago. Anish Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures at the Jewish Museum also pushed boundaries and set the stage for the monumental artworks for which he’s best known today. These creators laid the groundwork for later generations of artists, including Luz Carabaño, whose quiet, dreamy paintings are almost hypnotic. If abstraction isn’t your preference, check out An...

The Museo Jumex, a private museum in Mexico City established by top collector Eugenio López Alonso in 2013, hopes to score a golazo with one of its exhibitions next year, timed to the upcoming FIFA World Cup. “Fútbol y Arte. Esa misma emoción”(Football & Art. A Shared Emotion) will open at the museum’s David Chipperfield–designed building in the city’s Polanco neighborhood on March 28 and run through July 26, the week after the World Cup Final in New York. Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca will host five matches, including the opening one on June 11. Organized by Mexican art critic and independent curator Guillermo Santamarina, “Fútbol y Arte” will bring together some 100 works by 60 artists...

A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square’s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city’s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid “Pier 865” provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square. The reptilian sculpture is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, continuing the designer’s interest in high-tech, large-scale installations that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real—one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling...

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced that it will shutter its New York outpost at the end of February 2026. The gallery, which had moved to its TriBeCa space just over two years ago, will continue to operate its London flagship, in business since 1995, and has said it will maintain its full artist roster. Stephen […]

The end of the year is quickly approaching and so is the season of giving. By choosing to shop with us this year, you’re supporting independent publishing and allowing us continue to share important stories every day. This year’s Colossal Gift Guide highlights some of our favorite art and design products. From world-renowned artist tools and one-of-a-kind calendars to quirky bags and detailed monographs, we’ve curated everything you need to be named Best Gift Giver of the Year. Grouped by each unique recipient—whether it be your creative sibling, grandkids, or that one uncle whose vibe is impossible to identify—there’s something here for everyone on your list. Grab a cup of tea, get cozy, and...

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, set to open in 2026, will present giants from the Western tradition, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol, alongside lesser-known contemporary artists from regions as far-flung as Asia, Africa, and the Arab world, the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s department of cultural tourism said at a recent briefing that for the first time revealed what would be on view in the long-awaited museum. “They’re going to be within that collection, but right next to them, you’ll have amazing contemporary artists that maybe, unfortunately, the vast public don’t know much about,” said Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, promising that the new institution would be “a...

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marc fornes activates a pastoral pocket in knoxville
 
Artist and architect MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY completes a sculptural aluminum installation, Pier 865, within an historic park in Knoxville, Tennessee. The work sits within an established green space near Knoxville’s Old Town neighborhood, extending an invitation to step away from the street and move toward open air. Its position on a cast-in-place concrete pier gives visitors an elevated view across the park’s foliage, and lends a shift in perspective that feels at once urban and pastoral.
 
Marc Fornes designed Pier 865 with a sensitivity to this layered context, shaping an intervention that reads as part lookout, part sheltered landscape. The...

Rotterdam Photo 2026 Open Call: Echoes of Silence—War in the Artist’s SoulFeaturedRotterdam Photo invites photographers worldwide to explore how war and collective trauma resonate in the artist’s inner world. ‘Echoes of Silence’ asks: What happens when artists are not eyewitnesses to conflict but still carry its emotional legacy? How does violence linger in memory—not as an image, but as a feeling, a silence, a sound within? This edition focuses on photographers who use their lens not as a tool for documentation, but as a mirror reflecting the unseen impact of war, displacement, and survival. Selected applicants receive exhibition space at Rotterdam Photo 2026, along with shows in Barcelona,...

The Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in England issued a fundraising plea to keep a beloved 15th-century altarpiece from entering a private collection—and likely away from public view. The Netherlandish altarpiece, known as The Master of the Sherborne Almshouse Triptych, dates back to 1480–90 and is valued up to £3.5 million (around $4.6 million). And that is the exact amount the museum is hoping to raise to acquire the piece before it is auctioned by Sotheby’s in an Old Master evening sale next month and prevent the work from being exported. “This masterpiece has been described by scholars as ‘exceptionally rare’—not only for its artistic brilliance, but for its remarkable survival through centuries...

Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two women between the ages of 31 and 40 were arrested on Tuesday and are being questioned, according to statements made by French prosecutors on Tuesday. All four suspects are from the area. There have been no charges or further details of the suspects’ possible roles in the heist. These arrests follow four others who were arrested in connection to the heist last month, with one still believed to be at large. (It is unclear if one of the suspects arrested on Tuesday is considered the fifth missing suspect.) Of the four, one was a taxi driver and...

"Even though I would hope to be remembered as a portrait artist—canonizing the image of Indigenous people within art history—I am constantly set upon side quests,” says multidisciplinary Canadian artist Wally Dion.. read the full article by clicking above.
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Cartoonist Jay Howell is "looking forward to the next thing, always". Click above to read the full article.
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Aggression and struggles for power abound in the vivid paintings of Ángela Ferrari. The Argentinian artist is keen to explore the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless. Evoking hunting paintings and masculine displays of pride for a kill, Ferrari’s works consider the relationship between predator and prey. In her most recent body of work, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, the artist extends her proclivity for teasing out the tension between life and death. There are tiny works with looser brushstrokes that zero in on singular moments of tension, while a spate of large pieces magnify several...

The contractual work was sold for €25,000 to appoint curator Mi You to the institution's board

Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.

kéré architecture shapes 40,000-square-meter public library in rio
 
Kéré Architecture unveils the design for the Biblioteca dos Saberes (The House of Wisdom), a 40,000-square-meter public library and cultural center set to anchor the revitalization of Rio de Janeiro’s Cidade Nova neighborhood. Commissioned by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, the project will be the first built work of the studio in South America and its second library after the Gando Primary School Library. 
 
A vertical cylindrical volume described as ‘the tree of knowledge’ centers the project, referencing species native to the Tijuca Forest and the communal function of trees in Francis Kéré’s hometown of Gando, Burkina Faso....

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Mindy Seu’s Instastory performance lays bare the internet’s sexual architecture.

As Messiah season begins, Christopher Corwin reports on two of Handel’s forays into the Old Testament.

Sam Metz is the winner of the 2025 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize. Their work seeks to answer the question: what would the art world look like if it centred neurodivergent experiences? They make drawing, animation and sculptural installation that respond to neurodivergence and the body, often relating to stimming and ecology. The award-winning sculpture, Porosity, reflects Metz’s sensory experience of the Humber Estuary. Bright yellow structures echo how they see the water’s reflection through ocular albinism (a genetic condition that affects the eyes). The piece challenges conceptions of sculpture by integrating disability into its core form, embracing difference as method and message. Metz spoke to...

As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is

From a childhood trip to the Pyramids of Giza to the 'Empire' podcast, the curator shares her cultural influences

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Bureau FORME forms SKATE PARK AND STREETBALL COURT ALICE MILLIAT
 
Located along the RER A railway line at the end of Avenue des Murs du Parc in Vincennes, France, Bureau FORME’s project introduces a combined sports facility integrating urban wheeled disciplines with a multi-purpose court. Positioned beside the Vincennes ‘Dôme’ swimming complex, the site represents the final stage of a broader redevelopment of former railway land. Initially reserved for a pedestrian bridge, the plot remained unused until the PEMB authority assigned it for a neighborhood-serving sports program.
 
The primary design challenge was to incorporate three distinct functions within a limited footprint while maintaining...

galeria gabinete wraps Ponto C, a cultural hub in green cork
 
In Penafiel, Portugal, Galeria Gabinete completes Ponto C – Cultura e Criatividade, a cultural building that reorganizes the city around it. Led by architect Helder de Carvalho, the project establishes a new southern entrance and redefines the relationship with the historic center. What had long been dismissed as ‘the back’ of the city now faces the Praça de S. Martinho square as a civic foreground, undoing the idea of Penafiel as ‘a city split down the middle’ and opening possibilities for more structured expansion.
 
The building settles into the sloping topography, partly veiled by magnolias and planted embankments. Traces of the...

Photography has a unique capacity to make the invisible visible, and to illuminate truths about the world and ourselves that often go unnoticed. It documents reality whilst simultaneously interpreting it, acting as both witness and storyteller. The 2025 Royal Photographic Society Awards, the world’s longest-running photography prize, celebrated this power, recognising photographers whose work challenges boundaries and transforms how we see. From experimental landscapes to socially engaged portraiture, the winners demonstrate the breadth of contemporary photography and its capacity to engage, provoke and inspire. At the forefront is Susan Derges, awarded the RPS Centenary Medal for her outstanding...

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Chiharu Shiota’s work fills the galleries of MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin with a sense of presence and reflection. The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka and Davide Quadrio, traces over 20 years of the Japanese artist’s practice, bringing together drawings, sculptures, photographs and monumental installations. Her pieces transform the museum into an immersive environment where threads, boats, dresses and suitcases act as carriers of memory, identity and human experience. The exhibition places Shiota’s work in dialogue with MAO’s collection, inviting visitors to consider the connections between East and West, past and present, and the visible and invisible traces that shape our lives. It...

Painter, jazz musician, and assemblage artist Llyn Foulkes, known for his uncategorizable work and his resistance to the commodification of art, died on November 20 at the age of ninety-one. During a career spanning seven decades, Foulkes created a vast and diverse body of work bound together by his use of humor and satire to […]

The US State Department on November 24 announced that Mexico-based American sculptor Alma Allen will represent the United States at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. The pavilion is to be curated by Jeffrey Uslip, onetime chief curator at the St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art. Allen, whose polished, rounded […]

At 75, Cindy Zimmerman is developing a workshop on making artist books for Banned Books Week at San Diego Central Library. They're also working on Mobile Monument, rolling activist art for protests, parades, and exhibitions, amplifying words purged during the first weeks of the Trump administration. They're more clear now that they decide what to do based on the guidance of their inner voice. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point in their life?  Too little space. Someone...

Washington National Opera presented a well-sung and humorous Marriage of Figaro, buoyed by clever direction and a strong cast, particularly Rosa Feola’s Countess and Joélle Harvey’s Susanna.

Carl Orff’s cantata tries its fortunes at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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Earlier this year, Hollywood actress Tilly Norwood made headlines when she began searching for an agent. She’s almost indistinguishable from many others aspiring to make it in the film industry, with one exception: she’s not real. Norwood is entirely AI generated. Eline Van der Velden, the designer behind the performer, spoke at a summit at Zurich Film Festival, expressing hopes that Norwood would “be the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.” The character’s emergence sparked outrage amongst A-listers, many of whom see this is as a genuine threat to human creativity and secure employment. It has prompted responses from unions, like UK Acting Union Equity and SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin,...

In 1947, two years after WWII ended, four war photographers founded Magnum Photos. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour had each reported on the atrocities and conflicts of the 20th century and were recalibrating to a new world. The agency was a new type of collaboration, departing from conventional practice to allow copyright to be held by the artist, not by the magazine that published the work. Almost 100 photographers have been part of the collective, diversifying to include women and people of colour, and 49 are active members today. Much of society has changed since the agency was established, with digital photography, smartphones, social media and generative AI...

Up to a year ago, E.M. Miller's medium was food. Now it's raw canvas. At 50, he's a former actor turned musician turned chef turned artist standing at yet another fucking crossroads and deciding if he continues down this rabbit hole of art or not. How's his work different now than it was before 50?  A weaker person or perhaps a lesser experienced person would say the unknown, but he's used to not asking those kinds of questions. What's actually hard about being an artist at this point? He...

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foto credit Susanna Andreini Susanna Andreini works with the invisible realms—concrete with Elemental Beings. At 60, the stunning results of her recent paintings, the absolutely unexpected colors, motifs, and expression touched her in a very deep way and encouraged her to explore this way of artistic expression even deeper. She's exploring her connection to the Elemental Beings, offering them her canvas as their stage. They dance on it, try out different forms, sometimes as lines, sometimes...

GWAR was never an ordinary rock band. And in the recent documentary This Is GWAR, director Scott Barber digs into the past and present of the music and art collective that simultaneously defied categorization while infiltrating late twentieth century pop culture and continues to entertain fans today with heavy metal and elaborate—even gory—stage shows. Read Liz Ohanesian's full article by clicking above.
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There’s just one week left to submit your work for Shutter Hub Editions’ publication The Colour Library: Blue!
The Colour Library is a curated series of photo books exploring the emotional, symbolic, and visual power of colour. Each edition is a visual exploration and celebration of one colour, showcasing its presence, symbolism, and emotional range across different photographic styles and perspectives.
Our first edition is devoted to blue. A colour of depth and distance. Vast as the sky and as still as water. Blue evokes calm, melancholy, serenity and sorrow. Delicate cornflowers, robust denim, precious jewels, and the deepest ocean. From literal to abstract interpretations, and alternative processes,...

“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above.
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CAAM presents a powerful solo exhibition and performance series honouring Black trans life, loss, and celestial memory. Sage Ni’Ja Whitson. Courtesy of the California African American Museum (CAAM). The California African American Museum (CAAM) has […]

Curated by Khalid Albaih, Rahiem Shadad, and Dr Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, ‘Sudan Retold’ brings together artists, researchers, and designers to reclaim Sudanese histories through art, storytelling, and cultural memory Sudanese women in thobes. © Faiz AbuBakr […]

Tracing the space between analogue and digital, perception and presence The Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), in collaboration with munyu, opened ‘Between Signals’ on 2 November 2025, a multidisciplinary exhibition that remains on view through […]