Steve Messam continues his giant inflatable interventions, positioning the bold works amid everyday architecture.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/steve-messam-inflatable-sculptures-installations-architecture/

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Annie Collinge and Rottingdean Bazaar's 'Table for One'

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/06/table-for-one-annie-collinge/

#food #photography

New-to-us species alert! These snailfish get bumpy, dark, and sleek in the deep sea.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/new-species-snailfish-mbari-suny-geneseo-ocean-life/

#nature

In a small rural Wisconsin city, Pat Perry connects the various forces that shape our world, from strong-willed educators to an explosive volcano.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/pat-perry-teacher-volcano-mural-wisconsin/

#art #publicart #murals

Cheng-Tsung Feng’s “Sailing Castle,” installed in Tainan, cruises through 400 years of Taiwanese history.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/cheng-tsung-feng-sailing-castle-tainan-taiwan-pavilion/

#art #installation #taiwan

We're beginning our week dazzled by these mirrored installations by Song Dong. The artist is known to incorporate household furnishings, garments, and other quotidian objects into monumental, glimmering works.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/song-dong-mirrors-installations-sculpture-borrow-light/

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What do the objects we surround ourselves with say about who we are? For Angela Burson, they're everything.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/angela-burson-analog-conditions-paintings/

#art #painting

A jackdaw cyanotype by Deborah Parkin

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/02/deborah-parkin-cyanotypes/

#photography #nature #birds

Undulating in a Utah Museum of Fine Arts gallery, thousands of glimmering casts seem to float throughout the space. The copper foil pods are the latest project by Yasuaki Onishi.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/yasuaki-onishi-stone-on-boundary-copper-molds-installation/

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Feeling anxious? There's a reason your favorite artists, friends, and coworkers are all diving into pottery: it's a sustainable and calming medium that feels particularly aligned with our current moment.

If you need to work out some of those feelings, join us this month for a two-part workshop with Sydnie Jimenez. She'll teach the technique behind her signature head pots, and you'll walk away with a new friend.

https://joymachine.art/products/sydnie-jimenez-workshop

#art #ceramics #chicago