Source artforum.com  Leon Black, formerly board chair of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and currently a trustee, is being sued on charges that he raped a woman in the Manhattan townhouse of the late convicted sex offender

Source Colossal   Medianeras, “The Crystal Ship” (2021) in Ostend, Belgium. All images courtesy of the artists and Prestel, shared with permission For street artists, the urban landscape is an infinite canvas. Whether wheat pasted, sprayed, or layered with brushes, vibrant compositions revitalize public spaces and provide an ever-evolving barometer of the political climate and current…

Source Design You Trust  The Mexican photo-artist Raúl Cantú is fascinated by the imaginative possibilities of photography and technology. In his most recent work, he uses the artificial intelligence capabilities of machines as a creative tool. His images have an aesthetic somewhere between photography and the plastic arts, hovering in the liminal space between the…

Source Design You Trust  While some cats are only silently judging your poor life decisions, others openly show their hatred and contempt. 2023 Pissed-Off Cats Calendar lets you spend the next year looking at cats that want to murder you in your sleep. More: Etsy h/t: sadanduseless In addition to hilariously pissed off cat pics,…

Source Design You Trust  It could happen only in America; where else would anybody create a stretched Countach lookalike with four doors? Built by Ultra Limousines, the California Countach was a glassfibre replica that measured a whopping 5710mm long, which was around 1500mm longer than standard. The project was instigated by Vini Bergeman, who commissioned…

Source Design You Trust  Life has always been the inspiration of Japanese artist Yuuki Nishimura. It is there that he finds the raw material for his work: people. The artist is known not for inventing characters, but for portraying the real lives of ordinary people. People so normal that, if it weren’t for the tracing…

Source Colossal   Image © Rebecca Louise Law Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. World of WearableArt 2023 CompetitionFeatured Entries are open…

Source artforum.com  Pathbreaking underground comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb died of pancreatic cancer at her home in the Cévennes region of southern France, at the age of seventy four on November 29. Kominsky-Crumb in