Source Colossal   An autodidact and polymath, Robert Smithson cemented himself as one of the pre-eminent land artists in his short lifetime. Along with his fellow artist and wife Nancy Holt, Smithson pioneered a new way of working that explored connections to the landscape and place and endlessly probed the formation of knowledge. When he died…

Source Design You Trust  Between the 12th and 13th centuries, Bologna was densely packed with tall, defensive stone towers, some reaching up to 97 meters. These towers were complemented by fortified gateways known as torresotti, remnants of the city’s 12th-century walls, which have mostly vanished. Constructing a tower, even with serf labor, was a slow…

Source Design You Trust  Winner – Wildlife Photographer of the Year: “Ghost Town Visitor” by Wim van den Heever Nature enthusiasts and photography fans eagerly anticipate the annual reveal of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners, and the 2025 collection from London’s Natural History Museum doesn’t disappoint. Selected from over 60,000 entries across 113…

Source Design You Trust  1st Place: “Rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) on a grain of rice” by Zhang You The 2025 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition has unveiled its winners, revealing astonishing images of life at the microscopic level. For over five decades, this contest has celebrated the intricate beauty of nature as seen through a…

Source Colossal   Armed with tweezers, a porcupine quill, and more patience than most of us could fathom, the senior paper conservator of the Victoria & Albert Museum tackles a finicky restoration project in a new video. Susan Catcher walks us through her impeccably precise process as she restores a damaged fan dating back 200 years.…

Source Design You Trust  “Smilin’ Jack” is a massive jack-o’-lantern face painted on a squat, ellipsoidal storage tank at the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, originally built by Union Oil in 1952. Inspired by the tank’s orange primer and pumpkin-like shape, a plant executive proposed painting a festive face on it, which was approved and…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the portfolio of UK artist Rhia Janta-Cooper, who creates delightful landscapes and nature-inspired paintings. The post Featured Artist Rhia Janta-Cooper appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Nothing sparks the imagination quite like coming across a trove of old photographs. We look for writing on the reverse and scan the anonymous faces to read a range of expressions. Where exactly they were at that moment, what brought them together that day, and who took the picture? For Stan Squirewell, the…