Empower Your Practice With the NOT REAL ART Grant for Artists — Colossal
#sponsor November 6, 2023 Not Real Art 2022 NOT REAL ART Grant winner Joan Cox, “In the Garden of Autumn” Let your art shine: Calling all creative minds working in the realm of visual art! The NOT REAL ART…
The Drifters Project Harnesses Community to Clean the Oceans and Visualize Global Plastic Pollution — Colossal
Art #community #Drifters Project #installation #oceans #plastic #pollution #sculpture November 6, 2023 Grace Ebert “Pam In Net” (2008), Southpoint, Hawai’i, Hawai’i Wildlife Fund collaboration. Photo by Megan Lamson. All images © Pam Longobardi, shared with permission In 2006, Pam…
In Calida Rawles’ New Paintings, the Next Generation Transcends Darkness — Colossal
Art #acrylic painting #Calida Rawles #painting #water November 3, 2023 Grace Ebert “With Wings of Infinity” (2023), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and…
Play Meets Ink in Roy Scholten’s Ongoing LEGO Letterpress Bird Series — Colossal
Art #birds #Lego #printmaking #Roy Scholten November 3, 2023 Grace Ebert Common linnet. All images © Roy Scholten, shared with permission Roy Scholten is wrapping up a years-long printing project with dozens of playfully rendered fowl. 50 Birds is…
Kinetic Botanical Sculptures by William Darrell Wriggle and Writhe in Hypnotic Motion — Colossal
Art #kinetic sculpture #sculpture #William Darrell October 31, 2023 Grace Ebert “Ostara.” All images © William Darrell, shared with permission William Darrell describes his kinetic sculptures as “mechanically abstracted organisms,” animated forms that pulse, shimmy, and spin with lifelike motion….
A Forgotten Vault Where Michelangelo Hid and Sketched For Months Opens for the First Time — Colossal
Art History #art history #drawing #Michelangelo November 2, 2023 Grace Ebert All images courtesy of the Bargello Museums, Florence In 1530, Michelangelo went into hiding after receiving a death sentence from Pope Clement VII. The iconic Renaissance artist had…
A New Documentary Follows the Ohio Environmentalists Making Paint from Toxic Mining Runoff — Colossal
Art Documentary Science #mining #paint #short film #video November 2, 2023 Grace Ebert In southeast Ohio, toxic drainage from abandoned coal mines has devastated streams and rivers. The acidic sludge, which is filled with heavy metals, leaches into…
Paint Whirls Through a Sea of Color and the Melodies of Chopin in a New Video by Thomas Blanchard — Colossal
Art #color #macro #Thomas Blanchard #video October 31, 2023 Kate Mothes A vivacious troupe of colorful paint blobs dance across a stage of oil and soap liquid in Thomas Blanchard’s latest video. Sliding around to the sounds of…
A Photo Preservationist Saved a Trove of 4,000 Glass Plate Negatives That Nearly Went Into the Trash — Colossal
History Photography #black and white #portraits #preservation November 1, 2023 Kate Mothes All images courtesy of Terri Cappucci, shared with permission It’s estimated that people around the world will take a whopping 1.6 trillion photographs this year. With lenses…
Monumental Paper Installations by Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen Bring Vibrant Flora Indoors — Colossal
Art Craft #flowers #installation #Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen #paper November 1, 2023 Kate Mothes All images © Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, shared with permission Enormous blooms crafted from thousands of sheets of creased, textured, and twisted paper explode in Marianne Eriksen…