Crowded Calm: Erin Milez explores urban closeness and detachment at Monya Rowe Gallery
Erin Milezs expressive, densely composed paintings explore crowded urban spaces and quiet detachment in Everything the Light Touches at Monya Rowe Gallery, running September 10 to October 24 in New York. Referencing George Tooker, Jacob Lawrence, and WPA mural language, works like A Giving Tree, Pick Your Plot, and Subway press figures close while keeping them inwardly absorbed.
Elvia Rosa Castro
Curator Elvia Rosa Castro is a Cuban independent curator and art critic writer based in North Carolina with 30 years’ impassioned experience in conceiving and launching significant, acclaimed exhibitions in Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, and the United States. MSc. in Art History, University of Havana (2000). Degree in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and History, University […]
María Milián Merique
Curator Curator, appraiser, and cultural manager with over 40 years of experience in the visual arts, trained in Art History at the University of Havana. She has directed key institutions and galleries in Cuba and Panama, including the National Directorate of Visual Arts at the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets, the UNEAC National Gallery, and […]
Rare Sightings and Patient Craft Define the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards named Francisco Castro Escobar and Jacqueline Burke as grand-prize winners for Chile/Colombia and U.S./Canada, respectively, alongside category honorees that reveal avian behaviors and human-made risks. Highlights include images from Chile, Florida, the Shetland Islands, and beyond.
Monochrome Reveries: Hans Op de Beecks Vanishing Point in Brussels
Hans Op de Beeck presents Vanishing Point at Almine Rech in Brussels from September 10 to November 7, featuring monochromatic, often life-size sculptures that foreground form and mood over color. A statement frames the title as a metaphor for memory, imagination, introspection, and slipping briefly outside time.
Rafael Pérez Alonso
Artist Rafael Pérez Alonso is a self-taught Cuban visual artist, born in Havana in 1965, whose work explores insularity, identity, and memory through drawing and sculpture. He is exhibited and represented by Echo Art Foundation, which showcases his multidisciplinary practice — rooted in Cuban symbols like the Royal Palm — to a wider audience. He […]
Worlds Unfolding Charts Science on the Page, From the 10th Century to Today
The five-volume Worlds Unfolding: Science on the Page, published by Princeton University Press, draws on The Huntington’s archives to present more than 625 illustrations spanning the 10th century to today, with an introduction by Bill Nye and volumes titled Above, Below, Within, Beyond, and Alive. Highlights range from Ruth Rowland Nichols in 1931 to Nikola Tesla in 1899, Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies, and a 1980 Voyager 1 image of Saturn.
Grids of Whimsy: Ashley Percivals Patterned Menagerie
Cornwall-based illustrator Ashley Percival turns poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects into pattern-rich characters, often arranging multiple versions of a species in grid formations. Recent bird works were inspired by three months in Spain and France, and he notes, I dont think about the colors I use. Its all free flow, he tells Colossal.
Judgment Under Review: Critics, Gatekeepers, and a Met Museum Cancellation
From a critic’s call for an “extra-human” review in San Francisco Classical Voice to AP’s report that The Met Museum canceled its Galliano show, recent stories map the shifting forces—human and algorithmic—that shape taste and authority.
Inside Isaiah Lees Dollhouse Worlds, Shadows Stretch and Memories Shift
Chicago artist Isaiah Lee builds dollhouse-scale paintings where toys turn uncanny, shadow widens the unknown, and faith and memory collide. His solo exhibition A Thief in the Night opens October 16 at crosswalk in Chicago, with additional works on view through November 1 at Hyde Park Art Center.