A new book forthcoming from Phaidon celebrates our love for these prolific winged things throughout millennia.
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 ‘Butterfly’ Explores 4,000 Years of Our Fascination with Lepidoptera in Art and Science appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
In "27 Schoolteachers and a Volcano," Pat Perry connects the hyperlocal and universal.
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 In Rural Wisconsin, Pat Perry Connects the Various Forces That Shape Our World appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
Feng's pavilion nods to the legacy of the 17th-century Dutch colonial era in Taiwan.
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 Cheng-Tsung Feng’s “Sailing Castle” Cruises Through 400 Years of Taiwanese History appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
A core component of this Colossal-curated exhibition is community participation.
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 ‘No One Knows All It Takes’ Invites Community Healing at the Haggerty Museum of Art appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
The painting in central London was covered up within hours.
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 Banksy’s Already Covered Painting in London Comments on the U.K.’s Palestine Action Crackdown appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
Nostalgia and youthful imagination converge in the Brooklyn-based artist's enigmatic works.
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 Maud Madsen’s Oil Paintings Explore Childhood Memories, Daydreams, and Nesting appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
The Beijing-based artist's participatory installation "Borrow Light" just opened at the 36th São Paolo Biennial.
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 Song Dong’s Monumental Installations Mirror Memories, Globalization, and Impermanence appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
What do the objects we surround ourselves with say about who we are?
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 Mystery Abounds in Angela Burson’s Engimatic Paintings appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
"Stone on Boundary" is installed less than an hour's drive from the world's largest open-pit copper mine.
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 Yasuaki Onishi Suspends Thousands of Copper Foil Molds in an Undulating Framework appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
Drawn from real places around the country, PITR's detailed works read like portraits of one continuous city.
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 PITR Highlights Storefronts, Signage, and Graffiti in Ultra-Detailed Portraits of Urban Streets appeared first on Colossal.
... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.