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I love getting lost in the drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King
These drawings by artist Susan Te Kahurangi King light me up inside. King, born in 1951, is a self-taught artist from New Zealand who speaks through drawings rather than words. She brings her...
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Artist/writer Austin Kleon's "100 things that made my year" for 2021
Austin Kleon, author of the inspiring best-selling book, Steal Like an Artist, posted a list of 100 things that ennriched his life this year. Here are a few excerpts: Starting a 5-year commonplace...
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The mail art of Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was an American artist who played a key role in neo-dada, pop-art, and performance art movements. Johnson was the founder of what's known as "mail art." Mail art became a big...
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Using A.I. to colorize a black and white photo of a destroyed Klimt painting
In 1945 Nazis burned a warehouse of paintings in Vienna because they didn't want the Russians to get them. Among the lost paintings were Guztav Klimpt's Philosphy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence. The only...
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Zoom WAY in on this 717 gigapixel scan of Rembrandt's The Night Watch
Rembrandt's 1642 painting The Night Watch, which measures 11.91 ft × 14.34 ft, was expertly scanned at ultra-high resolution (5 microns). It's like exploring the surface of a small planet. See also, a...
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Take a tour of this forest populated by the creepy statues of the late Veijo...
You can find many sculptures of artist Veijo Rönkkönen in a park located in the forest outside the small town of Parikkala, Finland. Visitors can enjoy these oddities for free. I have to see this place...
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The 90s Art School Instagram is a fascinating time capsule of pre-internet fun
90s Art School is a new-ish Instagram archive created by Matthew Atkatz. The 46-year-old Creative Director found a shoebox of grungy old photographs from his college days at the Rhode Island School of...
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Phoebe Bridgers'"I Know The End" as a pulp novel
Graphic designer Todd Alcott has done a ton of fantastic work making faux-retro book and movie covers inspired by rock songs, and I think he really knocked it out of the park with this new Phoebe...
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Art of Darkness is a fascinating look into the art practice and life of Bryan...
Art of Darkness is a documentary about an artist named Bryan Lewis Saunders who has been drawing a self portrait everyday since 1995. The documentary was released on March 30, 2015, marking Saunders'...
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Check out Patricia Piccinini's studio, where she makes her grotesque...
Peek behind the scenes of artist Patricia Piccinini's Melbourne studio. Piccini works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and drawing. Her work explores the relationship...
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Take a nostalgic trip to 1987 with this digital drawing system that worked on...
This 1987 LJN Video Art commercial features a digital drawing system that connected to your television. You would draw with a controller, and the drawing would appear on the TV screen. The commercial...
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Happy 100th birthday to William M. Gaines, the legendary publisher of EC...
Drew Friedman drew this terrific portrait of MAD publisher William M. Gaines to honor his 100th birthday earlier this month. The portrait is available as a limited-edition print. Friedman also wrote a...
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Why do most book covers have the same horrible abstract blob design?
Austin Harvey, who works at a bookstore says, "I see a lot of books. Most of them, I'm afraid, have terrible covers." They all look like the books in this collage, which he assembled for his Medium...
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Artvee is a free site where you can browse and download tens of thousands of...
Artvee is a free site where you can browse and download high-res, public domain artworks. You can search by artist, category, or keyword. In the abstract art section, there are 6,357 pieces of art to...
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These odd NSA motivational posters from the 1960s look like props from The...
Here's a link to a PDF of declassified NSA posters obtained via a FOIA. The posters, which range from the 1950s to the 1970s, combine threats delivered in a tone of forced cheerfulness and a design...
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Museumgoers weigh in on the best museum bathrooms
I don't know about you, but inspiring art and culture, and the rarefied air of museums, makes me have to poop. Or maybe it's the boiling and burnt coffee in the museum cafeteria. Either way, I've seen...
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Risky playgrounds: enriching or dangerous?
Australia is back at it. Melbourne artist and engineer Mike Hewson created a "risky play park", drawing ire from parents and delight from local children. It looks totally badass, full of ziplines and...
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Acoustic turntable plays rocks instead of records
This is rock music at its purest. A stylus picks up a rotating stone's surface variations and transmits the vibrations to a copper horn. I don't know who the creator is. If you do, please post in the...
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Gary Baseman's Manny Moa plush
If like me, you love artist-edition objects and have the propensity to fill your home with weird things, you likely will fall head over heels in love with Gary Baseman's new plush. The only question...
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Happy Cartoonist Appreciation Day to those who celebrate
May 5 is Cartoonist Appreciation Day! Here is the obligatory cartoon, by B. Kliban, that is annually celebrated on this day. Just a reminder that today is National Cartoonists Day, in case you wanted...
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How Patrick Nagel prints (and crude imitations) came to haunt America's hair...
The brilliant YouTube channel, Nerdwriter1, explains the origins of those captivating paintings of pale women which adorn the walls of almost every hair salon in the country. Art is timeless. Even if...
View ArticleKriller is an eternal seven-day looping art broadcast
Kriller is a new audiovisual experience by artist James Paterson and musician Stephen Ramsay described as an eternal seven-day looping art broadcast. Refreshing and familiar at the same time, it...
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The art of "Galactic Superbloom" plays with infinitely repeating and...
I was walking my dog the other day and spotted something colorful attached to a utility pole I was passing. I approached it for a closer look and saw that it was a really pretty acrylic flower, with a...
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The visionary work and home of Robert Tatin
Robert Tatin wanted to build a shed. So he did. When he finished it, he decided it was too beautiful to just be a shed. So he built another and ran into the same problem. This conundrum continued until...
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Eisner Award-winner Craig Yoe launches surreal graphic novel: WOMAN & MAN+
My friend, the Eisner Award-winning artist Craig Yoe just launched his graphic novel, WOMAN & MAN+, in collaboration with Clover Press, on Kickstarter. The book marks Yoe's long-awaited return to...
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Billionaire art collectors deceived by Damien Hirst shark sculpture misdated...
Scandal in the art world! An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that a colossal tiger shark sculpture, a centerpiece at the opulent Palms casino resort in Las Vegas, was not created in 1999 as...
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Why school buses all look alike
There are very few constants in our world, but one American tradition has changed very little in almost a century — the school bus. According to Jalopnik the black and yellow behemoth, with minimal...
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Kagen Sound's incredibly intricate puzzle boxes
Kagen Sound is an award-winning woodworker and artist who makes remarkably detailed puzzle boxes out of wood. The puzzle boxes must be solved in order for the lid to be opened. In the video, we learn...
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