Organic, Sunrise Gradients Mask Front Pages of The New York Times by Artist Sho Shibuya
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For many people, blocking out the news has meant logging off of Twitter and resisting the urge to check every breaking update. But Sho Shibuya has taken a more literal approach to the stress-reducing action. The Brooklyn-based artist and founder of the desig
Interactive Event with Paint Kartel Teaches Seniors to Create Bold Graffiti in Belgrade
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A recent workshop hosted by Street Art Belgrade paired up members of the Serbian collective Paint Kartel with seniors interested in the public art form. Throughout the interactive event, participants learned about graffiti and its history, in addition to somA Decade of Sun: A New Timelapse Chronicles Ten Years of the Enormous Star
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Most experts advise against staring at the sun for more than a few seconds, and yet, a new timelapse from NASA lets viewers peer into the fiery mass for an entire decade. During the course of ten years, the Solar Dynamics Observatory took more than 425 miPlayful Illustrations by Giulia Pintus Render Quirky, Body-Positive Characters in Relaxed States
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Many of Giulia Pintus’s pastel drawings center on the beauty of imperfection. The Piacenza-based illustrator renders whimsical characters in repose or calmly completing mundane tasks like applying mascara and threading a needle. “I love drawing humaDrive Through Indonesia with Rebel Riders, A Group That Modifies Vespas with Idiosyncratic Designs
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“One Vespa, a million brothers,” says Nando Anjasmara Azani. The Vespa enthusiast is part of Rebel Riders, a community in Indonesia dedicated to modifying the Italian scooters. In a recent video by Great Big Story, Azani and his compatriots shSinuous Snakes, Insects, and Florals Intertwine in Graphite Illustrations by Zoe Keller
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Through a winding series of delicate illustrations, Zoe Keller (previously) explores the fragility of the natural world. In Scale & Bone, the Portland-based illustrator renders copper belly water snakes, San Francisco garters, and eastern diamondback raBisected Bronze Figures by Artist Anders Krisár Rejoin Through Clasped Hands
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Being with oneself takes on a literal meaning in the works of Anders Krisár. The Stockholm-based sculptor and photographer focuses on the human body, creating analog casts from live models using silicone and plaster. A self-taught artist, Krisár uses his owVivid Photographs by Trung Huy Pham Capture Annual Water Lily Harvest in Vietnam
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Each year as the Mekong Delta floods, locals gather hordes of long-stemmed lilies from the water-covered rice fields. Photographer Trung Huy Pham recently captured the annual harvest in a vivid series taken in the Long An and An Giang provinces in Vietnam. HA Savvy Designer Launches Company that Prints Custom Masks Emblazoned with Your Face
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A clever new product by Danielle Baskin is a remedy to current challenges with facial recognition software. The San Francisco-based designer recently launched Maskalike, a company that prints custom face coverings with photographs of the wearer. Made of machiBrowse Hundreds of Artist’s Zines, Prints, and Other Works at the Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair This Weekend
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The Brooklyn Art Book Fair has moved its 2020 market online, extending the opportunity to pore through the offerings from artists and independent publishers to those who don’t reside in New York City. This year’s fair boasts more than 400 publicatAs a Tribute, Vhils Carves Ten Masked Healthcare Workers into a Hospital Wall in Porto
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To honor essential workers, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, who goes by Vhils (previously), recently completed an expansive public artwork at the São João University Hospital Centre in Porto. Vhils chiseled 10 masked figures into an outdoor wall at the fThis Incredibly Detailed Sino-Tibetan Book Was Printed More Than 40 Years Before the Gutenberg Bible
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An ancient-book collector is offering a rare glimpse into a Sino-Tibetan book that’s believed to have been printed as early as 1410 in Beijing. A self-described bibliophile known as Incunabula, the collector shared a thread containing dozens of images sFloating Black Balloons Explore Contradictions in Artist Tadao Cern’s Installations
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Artist Tadao Cern often considers dualities and contradictions—lightness and heaviness, minimal and intricate, inanimate and lively. He channels these relational tensions into “BB,” installations featuring black balloons that float in parallel pVintage Natural Science and Astronomy Illustrations Adorn Face Masks by Maria Popova
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Maria Popova, of Brain Pickings, has released a series of face masks that bring a dose of history to the modern-day essential. Each fabric covering is adorned with a vintage natural history or astronomy illustration, including Ellen Harding Baker’s solar sySolemn Faces Emerge from Hazy Portraits by Artist GyoBeom An
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Rendered in thick pencil, a new series of portraits by Seoul-based artist GyoBeom An feature models’ faces obscured in a monochromatic haze. While the distinct characteristics remain, a smudged overlay casts each subject in a blur. An tells Colossal tha2,292 Plants Fill the Audience in Opening Performance at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu
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This week, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu held its first performance with a live audience post-coronavirus, but it’s unclear whether the attendees were too green to appreciate Puccini’s “Crisantemi.” Seated in the red, velvet seats and amA Surreal Watercolor by Illustrator Marija Tiurina Captures a Miscellany of Thoughts in Quarantine
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If Marija Tiurina’s latest watercolor appears to be a random mishmash of dreamy scenes, that’s because it is. The London-based illustrator (previously) recently completed “The Lockdown Project,” a dense composition inspired by dozens ofAn Aerial Timelapse Captures One Million Begonias as They’re Woven Into an Ephemeral Tapestry
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Every other August, dozens of volunteers gather near the Grand Place in Brussels to compose a 19,000-square-foot, floral rug that blankets the central square. The massive installation is woven with one million begonias—a hearty flower that Belgium is the laA Transfixing Animation Utilizes the Optical Illusions of Pareidolia to Parallel Two Narratives About Birth
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Created by London-based animator and artist Vier Nev, “A Mind Sang” plunges into an entrancing journey of life’s stages. The short film is centered on themes of transformation as it hypnotically shifts perspectives scene-by-scene. “ItCabinet of Curiosities: A New Book Opens Centuries-Old Collections of Fossils, Sculptures, and Other Oddities
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In a span of more than 350 pages, Italian photographer Massimo Listri captures some of the most wondrous and bizarre collections gathered throughout history. Cabinet of Curiosities, a new XXL edition from Taschen, is comprised of countless artifacts from theA Minimally Animated Paper Box Expresses a Surprising Range of Human Emotions
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Most health experts say you shouldn’t bottle up your emotions, and an amusing new animation by Paris-based designer Benoit Leva proves you can’t box them up either. “I am Square” features a white, paper carton that’s literalHand-Tufted Patches of Color Form Lush Fiber Portraits by Artist Simone Saunders
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Alberta-based artist Simone Saunders hand-tufts bold, colorful portraits with themes of identity and Black history woven throughout. Crafting vibrant patches of fibers that form eyes, lips, and garments, Saunders casts her earnest subjects against austere bacFoxes Caught in Dramatic Squabbles and Sleepy Coils by Photographer Konsta Punkka
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Each spring, Helsinki-born photographer Konsta Punkka (previously) stakes out dens, showing he’s as clever in strategy as the foxes he’s hoping to encounter. This commitment to hours lying on cold, wet ground for hours on end has afforded a splendIn Artist Adrian Brandon’s Incomplete Portraits, A Year of Life Equals One Minute of Color
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When Adrian Brandon starts to color a portrait, he sets a timer. For his rendering of Breonna Taylor, the clock is set to 26 minutes—for George Floyd, 46 minutes, for Tony McDade, 38, and for Aiyana Stanley Jones, just seven. “When the alarm sounds,A Lounging Humpback Whale and Her Newborn Garner Top Prize in International Photography Contest
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Photographer Jasmine Carey, of Australia, captured a heartwarming moment between a mother humpback whale and her baby as they relax in the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga. Titled “Essence of Life,” the underwater shot recently won the top prize inGripping a Plastic Bag, A Massive Fox by Artist Florentijn Hofman Towers Over Rotterdam
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Residents of Rotterdam’s of Bospolder-Tussendijken frequently spot bushy-tailed foxes roaming their streets at night, but now, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has given the carnivorous animal a permanent home in the area. He recently installed a massiveToday, All New Colossal Membership Fees Will Be Donated to NAACP and Black Art Futures Fund
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For the next 24 hours, Colossal is donating 100% of all new membership fees to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Black Art Futures Fund—an emerging organization that promotes the elevation and preservation of Black arts and culture. Whether a monthly, anContemporary Films Are Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers by Illustrator Matt Stevens
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Generally, the adaptation pipeline begins with books and ends in film, but Charlotte-based designer and illustrator Matt Stevens has turned that process around. For an ongoing project that’s simply titled Good Movies as Old Books, Stevens reimagines conSprawling Roots and Richly Hued Gowns Permeate Mary Sibande’s Postcolonial Artworks
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The immensity and depth of Mary Sibande’s multi-media artworks reflect the magnitude of her subject matter, which explicitly entwines the enduring effects of British imperialism and the apartheid. Through photographs, sculptures, and sprawling installationBunch Auctions Offers 20th- and 21st-Century Fine Art From the Stephen Heighton Collection
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On June 30, Bunch Auctions’ 20th- and 21st-Century Fine Art Auction draws together a remarkable selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and media art by influential contemporary artists. The 278-lot sale is derived from two private collections and offUnusual Interventions by Artist Stefan Visan Juxtapose Leaves, Cutlery, and Everyday Objects
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Stefan Visan fashions surreal interventions out of mundane objects: a silver safety pin pierces verdant leaves, a burning candle is sliced and positioned at a tilt, and limp spaghetti lengthens fork prongs. The artist spends hours tinkering in his studio eacConstellations of Found Electronics Shape Faces on Vintage Rackets by Artist Leonardo Ulian
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London-based artist Leonardo Ulian (previously) merges two disparate elements in his sprawling assemblages: he speckles analog equipment with an array of electronic pieces found in digital devices. Created while in quarantine, Ulian’s Contrived Object s30 Hand-Cranked Machines Comprise Amusing Series of Miniatures by Artist Federico Tobon
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Similar to Lalese Stamps’s personal challenge to create 100 ceramic mug handles, a Los Angeles-based artist has crafted an amusing series of hand-cranked automatons in just 30 days. Federico Tobon, of wolfCat Workshop, used popsicle sticks, metal clipsA Model Morphs into a Rotund Tomato, Peeled Banana, and a Hoagie in a Bizarre Photographic Series
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A new photo series, titled Table For One, takes the proverbial saying that “you are what you eat” literally as it transforms model Tin Gao by sandwiching her between layers of cheese, lunchmeat, shredded lettuce, and sliced tomato in a bulging hoHundreds of Photos of the New York Sky Pinned to a Massive, Spherical Sculpture by Sarah Sze
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Artist Sarah Sze explores the myriad conceptions of time and space through a tremendous, new spherical sculpture. Titled “Shorter than the Day” —a reference to Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” whichDive Into a Never-Ending Sequence of Jumps and Tucks in an Olympic-Games Compilation
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Although devotees of the Olympic games will have to wait until 2021 for the next round of competitions, Donato Sansone channels the same excitement, energy, and displays of strength into an extravagant new mashup. A second iteration of his previous videoGraceful Photographs of Solitary Figures by Oye Diran Explore Beauty and Empowerment
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Oye Diran describes his distinctly elegant photographs as “conceptual with a degree of minimalism and fantasy.” The New York City-based photographer captures refined images of women dressed in pastel gowns of billowing tulle and surrounded by wid
