Going Sound in Circles

[View email in browser]( | [Forward to a friend]( | [Become a member!]( 2,292 Plants Fill the Audience in Opening Performance at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu This week, Barcelona’s [Gran Teatre del Liceu]( held its first performance with a live audience post-coronavirus, but it’s unclear whether the attendees were too green to appreciate Puccini’s “Crisantemi.” Seated in the red, velvet seats and among the gold balconies, 2,292 plants filled the iconic opera house to listen to the string quartet’s rendition. [READ MORE]( Vivid Photographs by Trung Huy Pham Capture Annual Water Lily Harvest in Vietnam Each year as the Mekong Delta floods, locals gather hordes of long-stemmed lilies from the water-covered rice fields. Photographer [Trung Huy Pham]( recently captured the annual harvest in a vivid series taken in the Long An and An Giang provinces in Vietnam. [READ MORE]( A Decade of Sun: A New Timelapse Chronicles Ten Years of the Enormous Star A new timelapse from [NASA]( lets viewers peer into the sun for an entire decade. During the course of ten years, the Solar Dynamics Observatory took more than 425 million images of the massive star that were aggregated into an hour-long compilation titled “A Decade of Sun.” [WATCH]( Do stories and artists like these matter to you? Become a [Colossal Member]( and support independent arts publishing. Join hundreds of like-minded readers who are passionate about contemporary art, [read interviews]( with some of the most exciting artists working today, experience our website ad-free, apply for our annual grant, and much more. Colossal now largely is supported by our readers; without you, there's no us. [Join today](. ❤ Floating Black Balloons Explore Contradictions in Artist Tadao Cern’s Installations Artist [Tadao Cern]( often considers dualities and contradictions—lightness and heaviness, minimal and intricate, inanimate and lively. He channels these relational tensions into “BB,” installations featuring black balloons that float in parallel planes and incline in rows. [READ MORE]( A Savvy Designer Launches Company that Prints Custom Masks Emblazoned with Your Face A clever new product by [Danielle Baskin]( is a remedy to current challenges with facial recognition software used to unlock phones. The San Francisco-based designer recently launched Maskalike, a company that prints custom face coverings with photographs of the wearer. [READ MORE]( Page Through This Incredibly Detailed Sino-Tibetan Book Printed in 1410 An ancient-book collector is offering a rare glimpse into [a Sino-Tibetan book]( that’s believed to have been printed as early as 1410 in Beijing. A self-described bibliophile known as Incunabula, the collector shared a thread containing dozens of images showing inside spreads full of red ink drawings and Ranjana script, a writing system developed in the 11th century. [READ MORE]( A Surreal Watercolor by Illustrator Marija Tiurina Captures a Miscellany of Thoughts in Quarantine If [Marija Tiurina]( latest watercolor appears to be a random mishmash of dreamy scenes, that’s because it is. The London-based illustrator recently completed “The Lockdown Project,” a dense composition inspired by dozens of submissions she collected during the first few weeks of quarantine. [READ MORE]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Tumblr]( [Vimeo]( [Website]( [Email](mailto:hello@colossal.art) [RSS]( This is the June 30, 2020, issue of our weekly digest. Thank you for subscribing. This email is supported in part [by our members](. You also can [adjust your preferences]( or [unsubscribe](. Published with love from Chicago. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶