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An enormous, cascading installation of crocheted fabric strips stretches across a cavernous gallery in Ernesto Neto ’s newest exhibition. At MAAT in Lisbon, the Brazilian artist (previously )...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/ernesto-neto-maat/

In the early 19th century, German naturalist Lorenz Oken quickly established himself as a leader in the Naturphilosophie movement, a current of Idealism , which attempted to comprehend a total v...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/lorenz-oken-natural-history/

A pair of sizable bronze boots have paused in a Bruges canal, the whereabouts of their owner unknown. The striking bronze sculpture titled “Who?” by Ivan Argote appears as if an 18th-century...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/ivan-argote-who-sculpture/

The ancient city of Pompeii was divided into nine regions, each known as a Regio that was further organized into a number of blocks called Insulae. And in Regio IX, Insula 10, archaeologists rec...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/pompeii-greek-myth-frescoes/

The idea for Drew Gardner ’s series Descendants emerged from a simple observation by his mother: she noticed that Gardner resembled his grandfather. Intrigued by how traits are passed down—no...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/drew-gardner-civil-war/

 “A lot of times, I do use notions of cooking and recipes in the way I describe making my work,” Hugh Hayden says in a new short film . “I do think that cooking, as an act of making so...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/hugh-hayden-skillet-sculptures/

We perceive color everywhere. Although it’s omnipresent, the concept is challenging to describe, in part because color itself is not an inherent property of matter. Our brains perceive hues thr...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/book-of-colour-concepts/

If you’re a mathematician who specializes in geometry, you might be called a geometer. No other term could so neatly describe the meticulous focus of German scholar Max Brückner (1860-1934), ...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/max-bruckner-polyhedra/

“This is Bob. Bob is a big fan of clubs,” the narrator opens in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Join or Die . “And this is a film about why you should join one and how Bob disco...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/join-or-die-documentary/

Critics have been lamenting the conformity of contemporary book coves for more than a decade, railing against the same abstract blobs and bland stock imagery gracing many titles. The designs are...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/judging-a-book-by-its-cover/