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Ross Bleckner at Capitain Petzel

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/13/2025 8:00 PM

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Kris Lemsalu at Temnikova & Kasela

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/12/2025 8:00 PM

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Hannah Wilke at Petzel

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/12/2025 8:00 PM

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Armed with Scraps, Lydia Ricci Builds a World of Messy Miniatures

By Colossal | Grace Ebert | 10/12/2025 12:11 PM

A broken pencil, outdated forms, and tattered bits of fabric are prime materials for Ricci's elaborate, small-scale worlds. 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 Armed with Scraps, Lydia Ricci Builds a World of Messy Miniatures appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Jesse Darling at Galerie Molitor

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/11/2025 8:00 PM

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Andy Meerow at Derosia

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/10/2025 8:00 PM

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Lukas Geronimas at Parker Gallery

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/10/2025 8:00 PM

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In ‘The Party is Over,’ Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times

By Colossal | Grace Ebert | 10/10/2025 5:05 PM

In a world this absurd and disastrous, do we gravitate toward cynicism or levity? 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 ‘The Party is Over,’ Murmure Confronts the Absurd Spectacle of the End Times appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Franz Erhard Walther at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/9/2025 8:00 PM

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Over My Head: Encounters with Conceptual Art in a Flyover City, 1984–2015  at 400 N. Peoria, Chicago

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/9/2025 8:00 PM

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Ant Hamlyn’s Vibrant, Smushed Still Lifes Preserve the Impermanent

By Colossal | Kate Mothes | 10/9/2025 10:34 AM

The London-and Lewes-based artist has a sense of humor when it comes to art history. 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 Ant Hamlyn’s Vibrant, Smushed Still Lifes Preserve the Impermanent appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Hana Miletić at A MAIOR

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/8/2025 8:00 PM

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Darrel Ellis at Hoffman Donahue

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/8/2025 8:00 PM

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Yen Yen Chou Embraces Change in a Whimsical Realm Brimming with Water Droplets

By Colossal | Grace Ebert | 10/8/2025 1:00 PM

Yen Yen Chou renders a dainty, dreamlike environment in which pastel hues and subtle gradients rule. 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 Yen Yen Chou Embraces Change in a Whimsical Realm Brimming with Water Droplets appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Paolo Puck Imagines a World Called Fliffmellington and Its Uncanny Artifacts

By Colossal | Kate Mothes | 10/8/2025 10:39 AM

Handbags, purses, and helmets are part of costumes that glimpse a wonderfully weird world. 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 Paolo Puck Imagines a World Called Fliffmellington and Its Uncanny Artifacts appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Robert Longo at Pace Gallery

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/7/2025 8:00 PM

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Rosalind Nashashibi at ARCH and Melas Martinos

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/7/2025 8:00 PM

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‘We AmeRícans’ Celebrates Puerto Rican Community, Pride, and Cultural Hybridity

By Colossal | Kate Mothes | 10/7/2025 11:05 AM

"This exhibition is a celebration and an act of preservation," says artist and curator Ruben Natal-San Miguel. 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 ‘We AmeRícans’ Celebrates Puerto Rican Community, Pride, and Cultural Hybridity appeared first on Colossal. ... Read full Story

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Jasmine Gregory at Soft Opening

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/6/2025 8:00 PM

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Jean-Luc Moulène at Miguel Abreu

By Contemporary Art Daily | | 10/6/2025 8:00 PM

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Rirkrit Tiravanija at Galerie Chantal Crousel

by Contemporary Art Daily | Nov 02 2025

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by ET Online | Oct 31 2025

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by thehealthy.com | Aug 28 2025

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Rise of women under 30 having major anti-aging surgery — once reserved for their grandmothers

by NY Post | Oct 30 2025

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by GameSpot | Nov 01 2025

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by CNET | Nov 02 2025

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by Reader's Digest | Oct 31 2025

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by Hello! Magazine | Nov 02 2025

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by NJ Spotlight | Oct 31 2025

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by Opinion on Fox News | Nov 02 2025

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by Gear Patrol | Nov 02 2025

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by Yahoo Sports | Oct 20 2025

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by Interesting Engineering | Nov 02 2025

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Word of the Day

arbitrary

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 2, 2025 is:

arbitrary • \AHR-buh-trair-ee\ • adjective

Arbitrary describes something that is not planned or chosen for a particular reason, is not based on reason or evidence, or is done without concern for what is fair or right.

// Because the committee wasn’t transparent about the selection process, the results of the process appeared to be wholly arbitrary.

// An arbitrary number will be assigned to each participant.

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Examples:

“The authority of the crown, contemporaries believed, was instituted by God to rule the kingdom and its people. England’s sovereign was required to be both a warrior and a judge, to protect the realm from external attack and internal anarchy. To depose the king, therefore, was to risk everything—worldly security and immortal soul—by challenging the order of God’s creation. Such devastatingly radical action could never be justified unless kingship became tyranny: rule by arbitrary will rather than law, threatening the interests of kingdom and people instead of defending them.” — Helen Castor, The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV, 2024

Did you know?

Donning black robes and a powdered wig to learn about arbitrary might seem to be an arbitrary—that is, random or capricious—choice, but it would in fact jibe with the word’s etymology. Arbitrary comes from the Latin noun arbiter, which means “judge” and is the source of the English word arbiter, also meaning “judge.” In English, arbitrary first meant “depending upon choice or discretion” and was specifically used to indicate the sort of decision (as for punishment) left up to the expert determination of a judge rather than defined by law. Today, it can also be used for anything determined by or as if by chance or whim.