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 Colossal September 5, 2023 Colossal Image for Colossal by Dave Whyte Dear Colossal readers, We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled stream of art and visual culture to say thank you. Colossal turned 13 last month, and as we pass this milestone, we’re reflecting on how independent arts publishing has changed over the years. What began as a personal blog in …

Drawings from artist and designer Jim Chen-Hsiang Hu from Taiwan. Hu’s work explores the idea of “problematic reality” and depicts what the world actually feels like to him. While things may appear normal or familiar when viewed in isolation, something problematic or strange is likely to appear when taken together. As a motif, this version of reality leans toward more …

 #sponsor September 5, 2023 The Other Art Fair The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, has been nurturing its artist-led event for 70 global editions, serving visitors with surreal experiences and accessible art. The upcoming Los Angeles fair at the Barker Hangar from September 21 to 24 marks ten editions in the city, so celebrations are mandatory. Tickets …

Tonika Lewis Johnson with a print featuring Enzo (left), Osain (middle), Kopeto (right) posed at Chatelet Metro Station (2023) at Cadre en Seine in July 2023 (all images courtesy the artist) At the start of her residency in Clichy-sous-Bois, an eastern Paris suburb, Chicago-based visual artist and activist Tonika Lewis Johnson heard a familiar sound: Luther Vandross’s 1980 song “Glow …

On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile overthrew President Salvador Allende. Previously renowned as South America’s most stable democracy, the country became a crucible for neoliberalism under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. During these years, tens of thousands of citizens were imprisoned, tortured, murdered, and/or disappeared.  Hundreds of thousands fled the terror, among them leftist filmmaker Patricio …

Installation view of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — A deadly disease, human technology threatening to end the world, gender norms disrupted, a leader’s promise to make America great again, capitalism running rampant, and violent racial inequities shared on media. It was the 1980s, and artist-activist Keith …

This month, Los Angeles art offerings ring in the fall season with unorthodox juxtapositions, combinations, and material experimentations that challenge the status quo. Several artists blur the false dichotomy between art and craft, including Teresa Baker, who paints on artificial turf; the Indigenous artists who underscore weaving in The Iridescence of Knowing; and Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, whose own practice involves …

Continuing its storied legacy in American art, ACA Galleries embarks on a new chapter with the opening of its second location at 173 Tenth Avenue in Chelsea, underscoring the gallery’s commitment to preserving its historical roots within a contemporary framework. Its doors will open this month with Kandy G Lopez: Situational Identity, New Works in Fiber, the debut solo exhibition …

“Balé Literal” is a tool of poetic resistance, an exhibition-dance turned into a living organism. It is a movement made up of a varied repertoire of dangling object-works, set in motion by a group of people orchestrated by the Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Balé Literal was initially presented in June 2019, on a street corner in front of A Gentil …

For its presentation in Sharjah iteration, “In the Heart of Another Country” has been reimagined to include new acquisitions and restored works, many of which are on view for the first time. Spanning all six galleries in Al Mureijah Art Spaces, the exhibition features over 150 works by more than 60 artists across three generations. Over the past three decades, …