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All images courtesy of École des Nouvelles Images A Strong Gust of Wind Disrupts the Mundane in ‘Jour de Vent’ April 9, 2026 AnimationFilm Jackie Andres Share Email Bookmark “Wind carries away destinies,” reads the brief synopsis for a short film titled “Jour de Vent,” or “Windy Day.” The sweeping animation was created in 2024…

“SPRING & 6TH STREET.” All images © Daniel Sackheim, courtesy of Hat & Beard Press, shared with permission Daniel Sackheim Traverses Los Angeles’ Noir Side in ‘The City Unseen’ April 8, 2026 BooksPhotography Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark When we think of Los Angeles, we often picture seemingly endless sunny skies, postmodern downtown skyscrapers, Hollywood,…

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. All images courtesy of NASA Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of ‘Earthset’ from Deep Space April 8, 2026 PhotographyScience Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark For the first time in more than 50…

Colossal Members Have Funded 100 Projects in K-12 Classrooms through DonorsChoose April 8, 2026 Colossal Colossal Share Email Bookmark Colossal Members have helped us reach fantastic milestone! We’re delighted to share that this month, we’ve officially assisted us in funding 100 projects in classrooms around the nation via DonorsChoose. These include supplies and materials for…

All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Retrofuturistic Figures Emerge from Wood in Playful Sculptures by Aleph Geddis April 7, 2026 ArtCraft Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark 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…

“Muchapihwa Korona” (2026), keyboard keys, plastic toothbrush heads, and metal button accessories, 55 7/8 x 66 15/16 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and Semiose, Paris, shared with permission Moffat Takadiwa’s Scrounged Sculptures Confront Africa’s ‘Colonial Hangover’ April 7, 2026 ArtSocial Issues Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark When Moffat Takadiwa sees a pile of…

Martijn van Dalen (NL), “Survivalunit” and Lisa Nigro (USA), “Angler Maiden.” Photo by Kleurstof A Parade of Floating Artworks Honors Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands April 7, 2026 Sponsor The Bosch Parade Share Email Bookmark Nothing and nobody is perfect. Imperfections can be found everywhere. From June 18 to 21, experience how these defects and…

“Penland Pop.” All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Hillary Waters Fayle Creates ‘Portraits of Place’ from Seeds, Foliage, and Petals April 6, 2026 ArtNature Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark When we think of somewhere we’ve been, what are the first things to come to mind? Perhaps there are memorable smells, a sense…

EXPO CHICAGO 2025. All images courtesy of the artists, galleries, and EXPO CHICAGO 7 Artists We’re Excited to See at EXPO CHICAGO 2026 April 6, 2026 ArtPartner Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark 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…

Early examples of Native American dice, dating from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene periods, found in the U.S. All images by Robert J. Madden, courtesy of Cambridge University Press 12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice April 6, 2026 History Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark Archaeologists have…