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Read the best art articles from around the internet, or watch the most insightful art videos from platforms like Youtube, Vimeo or leading art publishers like The Art Newspaper, Artsy and WePresent.

Motorized Photographs Of Sunset Blvd. And Other L.A. Streets

Motorized Photographs Of Sunset Blvd. And Other L.A. Streets

Art Cities Photos Videos

Commissioned by The Getty Museum to the painter, draftsman, photographer, and bookmaker, Ed Ruscha. Utilizing The Getty Research Institute’s preservation and digitization of over a million images from Ed’s Streets of Los Angeles photo series, and excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road.”

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Art Innovation Tech

As art institutions continue to raise ticket prices and roll out blockbusters, we may come to see shows that will be curated entirely by optimized algorithms. What happens when a museum becomes curator-less? Will this be the end of art history as we’ve known it, or the dawn of a techno renaissance?

Can A Corporation “Own” A Color?

Can A Corporation “Own” A Color?

Art Business Design

A handful of companies like Coca-Cola, 3M and Cadbury, have pushed the boundaries of intellectual property law by laying claim to individual colors. But is it really possible to “own” a color?

Where The Nazis Hid $3.5 Billion Of Stolen Art

Where The Nazis Hid $3.5 Billion Of Stolen Art

Art Videos

In the spring of 1945, with the Third Reich crumbling, the Nazis hid their stolen art in a sealed salt mine. But when U.S. troops arrived, they found the opening to the mine had been destroyed.

University Professor Has Redesigned The Zweibrück Observatory In Germany Into R2-D2

University Professor Has Redesigned The Zweibrück Observatory In Germany Into R2-D2

Architecture Art Design

Star Wars fans know him, the little droid R2-D2. Through him, friends of space can now look into the stars, more precisely into the Zweibrück starry sky. Because Hubert Zitt, professor at the Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences, has redesigned the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association.

These Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

These Pics Are Composed Of As Many Pixels As There Are Animals Still Alive In These Species

Art Media Nature

A brilliant 2008 campaign by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been resurfacing. The campaign, called WWF Japan – Population by pixel, was created by the agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo. Inspired by their work, Imgurian JJSmooth44 made a follow-up to their project and it’s just as powerful as the original.

Virginia Mori

Inspiration
Virginia Mori
Merry Across The Mersey: Tom Wood’s Visions Of Liverpool

Merry Across The Mersey: Tom Wood’s Visions Of Liverpool

Art History Photos

Known affectionately as the ‘photie man’ across Merseyside, Tom Wood worked in the region at a time of great social and political change. From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of his work highlights his bond with the city.

How Leonardo Da Vinci Made A "Satellite" Map In 1502

How Leonardo Da Vinci Made A "Satellite" Map In 1502

Art History Videos

When infamous Italian politician Cesare Borgia brought Leonardo da Vinci — the guy who drew this portrait — to the city of Imola, it was as a military engineer. When Leonardo was installed at Borgia’s newly acquired fort, one of his duties was to help Borgia learn the territory.

How America’s Biggest Theater Chains Are Exploiting Their Janitors

How America’s Biggest Theater Chains Are Exploiting Their Janitors

Art Economics

The major chains — AMC, Regal Entertainment and Cinemark — no longer rely on teenage ushers to keep the floors from getting sticky. Instead, they have turned to a vast immigrant workforce, often hired through layers of subcontractors. That arrangement makes it almost impossible for janitors to make a living wage.

The Threat To Freedom Of Expression In Japan

The Threat To Freedom Of Expression In Japan

Art Politics

The closure of part of the 2019 Aichi Triennale reflects a broader climate of aggression, censorship and nationalist revisionism. Art is the frontline in debates around free speech precisely because it creates space for questioning values and challenging historical assumptions in public.

James Niehues: The Man Behind The Map

James Niehues: The Man Behind The Map

Art Design Videos

If you are a skier or snowboarder, there is a good chance James Niehues has been your mountain guide. Throughout his 30 year career he has worked at the smallest hills and the most expansive resorts in North America. James has extensively researched, photographed and illustrated nearly every ski map used in North America over the last three decades.

A Rare Look At The Photography Of Andy Warhol

A Rare Look At The Photography Of Andy Warhol

Art Photos

While photography was central to Warhol’s artistic practice for 30 years, often as source material for his famous screen prints, his purely photographic works — in particular, his stitched gelatin prints of a single image printed multiple times and sewn together — only saw the light of day once while he was alive.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled A Small Southern Town

How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled A Small Southern Town

Art Politics

Newnan had prided itself on its quiet charm. It offered small-town living just 40 miles southwest of Atlanta and had earned the nickname “City of Homes” for its antebellum architecture. The town decided to use art to help the community celebrate diversity and embrace change. Not everyone was ready for what they saw.

A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell

A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell

Art Photos

Deanna Dikeman’s parents sold her childhood home, in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1990, when they were in their early seventies. They moved to a bright-red ranch house in the same town. Dikeman, a photographer then in her thirties, spent many visits documenting the idyll of their retirement.

Turn Your Friends’ Faces Into Temporary Tattoos

Turn Your Friends’ Faces Into Temporary Tattoos

Art

French artist Lise Grossmann has created a humorous way to keep your favorite people close. She creates custom temporary tattoos of peoples’ faces that you can wear on your own skin. She has created over 10,800 portraits for people all over the world.

Artists Create Incredible Model Sets To Imagine A Bleak Future Without Humans

Artists Create Incredible Model Sets To Imagine A Bleak Future Without Humans

Art Photos

In their haunting upcoming show, The City and Other Stories, US artists Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber imagine what the world might look like when we’re all gone. But these photographs aren’t images of real places; they’re model sets that they’ve built collaboratively at their studios in Brooklyn and Cincinnati.

Short Film: Ikhwène (Brotherhood) by Meryam Joobeur

Short Film: Ikhwène (Brotherhood) by Meryam Joobeur

Art Videos

One of the most acclaimed shorts of the year, and a frontrunner for Oscar. Mohamed is a shepherd in rural Tunisia with his wife and two young sons. Their world is shaken when their oldest son returns after a long journey with a mysterious woman he says is his wife.

The Psychedelic Posters And Graphic Design Of Japan's Tadanori Yokoo

The Psychedelic Posters And Graphic Design Of Japan's Tadanori Yokoo

Art Design

One of the most well-known, influential, and transcendent artists of post-war Japan, Tadanori Yokoo has one of the best styles of psychedelic, meets graphic design, meets poster art, meets traditional printmaking you will ever see. He has had numerous retrospectives over the years.

The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters Of The Soviet Union

The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters Of The Soviet Union

Art Design World

These extraordinary avant-garde movie posters are from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union before Soviet Realism took a hold on graphic design. The period of artistic freedom in the Communist Soviet Union was relatively brief but some of these posters are amongst the greatest ever created.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Art Posters Revealed

Tokyo 2020 Olympics Art Posters Revealed

Art Design

Since the early 20th century, posters have been created by Organising Committees of the Olympic Games to promote and advertise this major sporting and cultural event. Tokyo 2020’s official posters have been created by internationally renowned artists and designers

The Most Fascinating Riot You’ve Never Heard Of

The Most Fascinating Riot You’ve Never Heard Of

Art Crime History

A mob of thousands attempted to storm a theater over a performance of Macbeth, the National Guard had to be called up, 31 people were killed and more than 100 wounded all over the personal jealousies of two vain and insecure actors. This is the story of the Astor Place Opera House Riot of May 10, 1849.

The Courage To Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings On Art, Life, And Being Unafraid To Feel

The Courage To Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings On Art, Life, And Being Unafraid To Feel

Art Life Psychology

E.E. Cummings (October 14, 1894–September 3, 1962) — an artist who never cowered from being his unconventional self. “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.”

The French Paper Mill That Sold To Dalí And Picasso

The French Paper Mill That Sold To Dalí And Picasso

Art Videos

For 700 years, the Richard de Bas paper mill has produced some of the world’s finest paper. The French constitution is printed on paper from this mill. And artists like Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall were customers. Emmanuel runs the business today. His great grandfather bought the mill in Ambert, France, during World War II, and it has stayed in the family ever since.

A Rare Glimpse of William Eggleston’s Polaroids

A Rare Glimpse of William Eggleston’s Polaroids

Art Photos

William Eggleston is often referred to as the godfather of color photography, and with good reason: he is largely responsible for raising the status of color photography to that of an art form, where previously it was relegated to the realm of advertising.

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