Renée Condo draws on the philosophical tenets of her Mi'gmaq ancestry to create energetic beaded works.
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"Once upon a swampy ol’ dirt road, two sisters, Caelum and Terra, were growing up under the care of a spindly little witch by the name of Katarina."
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The London-based artist captures a daily swimming routine in tender drawings.
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Hashimoto's pieces range from multilayered wall works to large-scale, site-specific installations made with hundreds of discs.
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Colossal's founder Christopher Jobson sits down with artist Bryana Bibbs for a conversation about weaving through loss.
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For Elmer Guevara, the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and civil war in El Salvador have left an indelible impact.
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The coexistence of humans and nature plays out in the Tokyo-based artist's uncanny installations.
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"I carry a sketchbook with me at all times, and without it, I feel pretty untethered," Wymer says.
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"Telling stories with affection and noodging, [comedian Sarah] Silverman has always been encouraged by her family, who embraced rather than ostracized her for revealing family secrets on the way to reaping howls of laughter." — Thelma Adams, The Boston Globe, 19 May 2025
Did you know?
In ancient Greece, citizens whose power or influence threatened the stability of the state could be exiled by a practice involving voters writing that person's name down on a potsherd—a fragment of earthenware or pottery. Those receiving enough votes would then be subject to temporary exile from the state. Ostracize comes from the Greek verb ostrakízein (itself from the noun óstrakon meaning "potsherd"), used in 5th century Athens for the action of banishing someone by way of such a vote. Someone ostracized today is not exiled, but instead is excluded from a group by the agreement of the group's members.