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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…

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…

“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…

Rogue-one, “Lola the Barras Pirate” (c.2020), Ross Street / Suffolk Street, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire. © the artist. Photo by Gordon Baird / Art UK. All images courtesy of Art UK, shared with permission Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals April 3, 2026 Art Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark The…

“Enjambment” (2025), oil paint and glass beads on stretched canvas, 52 x 51 x 1.75 inches. Photos by Joshua White. All images © Liza Lou, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, and Seoul, shared with permission Brushstrokes Transform into Beaded Topographies in Liza Lou’s Mixed-Media Paintings April 3, 2026 Art Kate Mothes…