Art

For Alexis Trice, water is about moving energy and emotion. The native New Yorker (previously) paints gleaming tears that gush from an animal’s eyes or green-tinged seas with roiling waves to “release and recycle.” She adds, “I wanted to make work that could be felt without fully being seen.” Earthy color palettes and glinting light recur in Trice’s works, along …

The Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego (1935–2022) has emerged as one of the most singular figurative painters of recent decades. An activist, feminist, and creator of sumptuous and unsettling images, she has exerted a palpable influence in the art scenes of her native Portugal and the United Kingdom, where she chose to make her home. When she died in 2022, she …

Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, Mark Bradford, and the late Ruth Asawa are among 20 artists who received the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts at the White House today, October 21. Considered the most prestigious award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States federal government, the medals were formally presented by President Joseph Biden …

A collection of images taken during a recent trip to the Four Corners by photographer Brendan George Ko (previously featured here). Four Corners is a region where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. Home to Indigenous peoples such as the Navajo, the history of the area informs the depth and ineffable quality of the landscape. Ko lived here from …

Around the world, Jonathan Jimenez, a.k.a. Jonk, has visited more than 1,500 abandoned sites in nearly 50 countries. From crumbling churches to vacant theaters, the Paris-based photographer (previously) seeks unique ruins that nature gradually subsumes. In Naturalia III, his tenth book, Jonk documents a range of striking locations from Portugal to Georgia to Japan. Find your copy on his website, …

“Seasons in Hell” marks the final chapter in a trilogy of works by British artist Zoe Williams, which began with her solo exhibition “Fondant” (Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, 2023) and was followed by the performance Smears of the Night (Society in Disguise), (a collaboration between Williams and artist Nadja Voorham at the Museum of Art and History, Geneva, …

Communities on the Cranberry Isles, an archipelago off the coast of Maine named for its yearly cranberry harvests, have lived at the border of marine life for generations as boatbuilders and fishermen, enjoying the abundance of the islands. Since the 1920s, however, its population of year-round residents has steadily declined, while its rate of vacationers has grown. Today, three of …

Whimsy and ingenuity hold the soul of Colossal, so how does that translate to a website that shines as a space for arts and humanity? At the simplest level: scale, color, and clean typography.  This is the third and final installment of our three-part series illuminating the questions and values that guided our collaborative rebrand and redesign. Dive into Part Three: Crafting …

“Conversations Between Two“ is Cece Philips’ (b. 1996 in London, UK) third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Milan. This exhibition of new works on canvas is presented alongside a play written as a companion piece by writer Lucy Mcllgorm. In Cece Philips’ atmospheric paintings, the night is an omnipresent figure, invisible but felt and permeating spaces …

Lisa Schiff and Adam Singer (photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images) Manhattan art advisor Lisa Schiff, who was accused of embezzling her clients out of millions in a multi-year scheme, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a New York district court yesterday, October 17.  Last May, Schiff was hit with two costly lawsuits in which clients of her …