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Avoid Legal Problems in Your Art Business
Source Artsy Shark Every artist who sells their work is running a business. And every business has legal exposure. Here’s how to avoid issues as an artist. The post Avoid Legal Problems in Your Art Business appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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A Parade of Floating Artworks Honors Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands
Source Colossal Nothing and nobody is perfect. Imperfections can be found everywhere. From June 18 to 21, experience how these defects and shortcomings, these imperfections and flaws, can lead to fascinating discoveries and beautiful creations at the 2026 Bosch Parade. This edition’s theme, Powered by Defects, pays a contemporary tribute to the large and small…
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Moffat Takadiwa’s Scrounged Sculptures Confront Africa’s ‘Colonial Hangover’
Source Colossal When Moffat Takadiwa sees a pile of rubbish—old technology parts, personal care items, clothing—he doesn’t just see a bunch of junk. The Harare, Zimbabwe-based artist has spent the better part of two decades collecting thousands upon thousands of pieces of plastic and metals foraged from landfills near the city’s Mbare neighborhood, where heaps…
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Featured Artist Crystal Newton
Source Artsy Shark Enjoy the portfolio of featured artist and painter Crystal Newton, whose work celebrates the beauty of the natural world. The post Featured Artist Crystal Newton appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis
Source Colossal Chiseled from wood, Aleph Geddis’ spindly, playful, vaguely alien wooden sculptures evoke an enigmatic tension between identity and glyph. His organic, hand-worked objects teeter between abstraction and figuration like retrofuturistic icons. The artist lives between Japan, Bali, and Orcas Island in Washington. “This split has been incredibly generative, allowing me to carry my…
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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice
Source Colossal Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and…
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7 Artists We’re Excited to See at EXPO CHICAGO 2026
Source Colossal From April 9 to 12, EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier, hosting hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and multi-disciplinary programming both downtown and across the city. This week is one of the most exciting times for the Chicago-area art scene, and we’re excited to share our annual preview of what we’re most…
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Hillary Waters Fayle Creates ‘Portraits of Place’ from Seeds, Foliage, and Petals
Source Colossal When we think of somewhere we’ve been, what are the first things to come to mind? Perhaps there are memorable smells, a sense of other people being around, or a particular quality of light. But what if we remembered landscapes and experiences through plants? For Hillary Waters Fayle, flower petals, seeds, and foliage…