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The Legacy of Colonialism Haunts Hew Locke’s Era-Defying Flotilla

How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Hew Locke's work. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today a...

Khalif Tahir Thompson Reflects On Life in Brooklyn and His Living Collages at Victoria Miro

In “Send in the Clowns,” the artist moves beyond the domestic archive to reconstruct Brooklyn through the lens of his family archives and the accumulated visual noise of everyday l...

Studio Lenca Has Built a Career on the Ambiguity of the Diasporic Experience

Born José Campos, the artist left El Salvador as a child and grew up undocumented in the U.S.—experiences that shape a practice spanning painting, sculpture and community-based pro...

renée levi brings fluorescent painting to hayward gallery’s brutalist facade

the swiss artist turns industrial mesh and raw concrete into a temporary painting for audemars piguet contemporary, shaped by architecture, movement and the changing city. The post...

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Ali Cherri, Totems (2022), at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, Venice (23 April–27 November 2022). Courtesy La Biennale di Venezi...

Wangari Mathenge Reassembles Memory in ‘Re-membering’

The Kenyan artist expands her ongoing investigation of cultural memory and inheritance with five new paintings and her first publicly exhibited sculptures

Marka27 Superimposes Pop Culture, Graffiti, and Political Critique in Urgent Portraits

Marka27 taps into his own experiences of living between cultures and the arbitrary nature of national borders. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Mem...

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‘art can be everywhere’: yinka ilori brings chairman to community center in london

returning to islington for an exhibition during frieze london, the british-nigerian artist and designer considers how overlooked furniture can carry personal histories, build commu...

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Salvadoran artist Luis Serrano paints a mural during a street art festival in San Marcos, El Salvador. — AFP

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The Must-See London Exhibitions Beyond Frieze

Major surveys of Cecilia Vicuña and Salman Toor share the spotlight with Issy Wood’s self-portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Sam Doyle’s first U.K. solo outing, while s...

Gainsborough’s landed gentry lose their heads at the National Gallery

An 18th-century portrait of Suffolk landowners shares a room with a 1998 sculpture that recasts the couple in Dutch wax cotton — and removes their heads.Read more ›

Caribbean Folklore Gets A Sharp Contemporary Spin In Elliot Bastien’s Myths: Menace and Mischief

MIRAMAR, Fla. – Contemporary artist Elliot Bastien made a notable first move into the diaspora art market with a sold-out-minded proposition. This debut solo exhibition presented s...

David Spriggs Turns Transparent Sheets of Paint Into Sculptures That Float Between Reality, Illusion, and Light

David Spriggs, a British-born, Canadian artist who creates sculptural paintings from layers of transparent material. Instead of placing color on a flat canvas, he suspends it in sp...

Helch artist behind Windsor Castle graffiti which upset the late Queen dies aged 34

Tributes have been paid to prolific graffiti artist Helch, whose giant, block-letter tags appeared across the country, from the edge of Windsor Castle to the nation's motorway brid...

HRH Helch: the graffiti artist who left an indelible mark on high-rise Britain

He upset Queen Elizabeth II, defied the developers and had to scrap for every inch of graffiti space in a gentrified, urban landscape • Prolific UK graffiti artist Helch diesYou kn...

Monumental Sculptures by Sharif Bey Meditate on Identity and Objecthood in ‘Homecoming’

Calm yet imposing figures evoke the Benin Bronzes, ceremonial masking traditions, and the Moai stones of Easter Island. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Col...

“Autophagia” by Artist Rhys Edwards

Raul De Lara’s Sculptures Ask What Separates Raw Material, Medium and Meaning

Working with Hermès for the second time, the Mexican artist has transformed the brand's Madison Avenue window into an imagined world of anthropomorphized household objects, includi...

Blue Bermondsey People’s Mural - Russell Dryden

Shayle Flesser: Open, Enclose

Open, Enclose is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Shayle Flesser, presenting a substantial new body of work spanning large-scale painting, collage, hand-built ceramic ves...

Malaysian Artist Blurs the Line Between Architecture, Sculpture, and Light to Ask What It Means for an Object to Be Real

Kaiyi Wong is a Malaysian architectural designer, spatial artist, and founder of Unreality Studio. His practice operates at the intersection of architecture, physical sculpture, am...

Arty London restaurant Sketch has revealed a striking new entrance design

French artist Camille Walala has done it out in her signature funky designs