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'Love Is a Sensation' Spotlights the Boundless Creativity of L. V. Hull
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (654+ words) Love Is a Sensation" Spotlights the Boundless Creativity of L. V. Hull'thisiscolossal. com Love Is a Sensation" Spotlights the Boundless Creativity of L. V. Hull In the little town of Kosciusko, Mississippi, a self-described "unusual artist" named L. V. Hull transformed her home and garden of…...
Colossal Members Have Funded 100 Projects in K-12 Classrooms through Donors Choose
21+ hour, 44+ min ago (227+ words) Colossal Members have helped us reach fantastic milestone! We're delighted to share that this month, we've officially assisted us in funding 100 projects in classrooms around the nation via Donors Choose. These include supplies and materials for K-12 students, some of whom…...
Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of 'Earthset' from Deep Space
1+ day, 44+ min ago (328+ words) Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of "Earthset" from Deep Space'Colossal Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of "Earthset" from Deep Space For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA launched a mission to the Moon. A lot has changed since…...
Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles' Noir Side in 'The City Unseen"
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (358+ words) Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles" Noir Side in "The City Unseen'Colossal Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles" Noir Side in "The City Unseen" When we think of Los Angeles, we often picture seemingly endless sunny skies, postmodern downtown skyscrapers, Hollywood, and…...
A Parade of Floating Artworks Honors Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (278+ words) Nothing and nobody is perfect. Imperfections can be found everywhere. From June 18 to 21, experience how these defects and shortcomings, these imperfections and flaws, can lead to fascinating discoveries and beautiful creations at the 2026 Bosch Parade. This edition's theme, Powered by…...
Moffat Takadiwa's Scrounged Sculptures Confront Africa's 'Colonial Hangover"
2+ day, 57+ min ago (396+ words) In addition to her role as editor for Colossal, Kate Mothes is an independent, semi-nomadic contemporary art writer, curator, and organizer based most of the time in the Upper Midwest. She is also the founder of Young Space and a…...
Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (537+ words) thisiscolossal. com Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis" spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and…...
12, 000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (791+ words) thisiscolossal. com 12, 000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America'not unlike us'played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad…...
7 Artists We're Excited to See at EXPO CHICAGO 2026
3+ day, 33+ min ago (375+ words) From April 9 to 12, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier, hosting hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and multi-disciplinary programming both downtown and across the city. This week is one of the most exciting times for the Chicago-area art scene, and…...
Hillary Waters Fayle Creates 'Portraits of Place' from Seeds, Foliage, and Petals
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (675+ words) In addition to her role as editor for Colossal, Kate Mothes is an independent, semi-nomadic contemporary art writer, curator, and organizer based most of the time in the Upper Midwest. She is also the founder of Young Space and a…...