Category Archives: Art

Wild Personalities Flirt With Their Frames in Calvin Nicholls’s Meticulous Paper Sculptures | Colossal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023. KATE MOTHES All images © Calvin Nicholls Working primarily in white and neutral-toned paper, Nicholls’s pieces capture the intricate details of musculature, fur, and feathers. In exacting detail, a giraffe nuzzles its young and a panda noshes … Continue reading →

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How Beethoven Revolutionized the Symphony

6 Ways that Beethoven revolutionized the symphonic genre, and changed music history forever. […]

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Venessa Scott || ‘Vee’ (@venessascott_uk) • Instagram reel

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Banksy Archive 🐀 (@banksy_archive) • Instagram photo

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Humor and Happenstance Coalesce in Julie Hrudová’s Amsterdam Street Photography | Colossal

FEBRUARY 17, 2023. KATE MOTHES All images © Julie Hrudová ‘Chasing Amsterdam’ captures everyday moments and humorous happenstances around the Dutch capital. Along the streets and canals of Amsterdam, photographer Julie Hrudová (previously) captures daily life through candid snapshots of cyclists … Continue reading →

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Blossom Dearie – Manhattan

From the album “Jazz Masters 51” – 1996

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Endangered Animals Dissolve and Reassemble in Thomas Medicus’s Anamorphic Glass Sculpture | Colossal

FEBRUARY 15, 2023. KATE MOTHES Known for anamorphic sculptures that change with every 90-degree rotation, “Human Animal Binary” interlocks more than 144 strips of glass. Depending on which direction you approach from, you may encounter a lynx, a bee, a … Continue reading →

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Chanje Kunda (@chanje.kunda) • Instagram Poetry

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Memory and Knowledge Intertwine in Chiharu Shiota’s Immersive String Installations | Colossal

FEBRUARY 14, 2023. GRACE EBERT All images by Charles Roussel, courtesy of Galerie Templon In her solo show at Galerie Templon in New York, Chiharu Shiota considers how memory and knowledge intertwine. In Signs of Life, a dense installation of … Continue reading →

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The Typographic Legacy of Microsoft

Microsoft isn’t the first company you’d associate with typography, but their fonts have done more to democratize typesetting than any company in the last half century. Today we look at that history through 10 of their most famous and infamous … Continue reading →

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