Tag: art
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Brett Allen Johnson Harnesses the Glow of the American Southwest in Dreamy Oil Paintings
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in GeneralAs though seared into our collective consciousness, some images of the American Southwest seem to fully embody its inhospitable terrain, mercurial weather, and intense, challenging beauty. One of these would most certainly be Edward Curtis’ dramatic 1904 photograph of the sacred Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “deh-shay”) in Arizona, featuring a string of Navajo riders on horseback, silhouetted…
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Artist Creates Intricate Land Installations as a Meditation on Letting Go
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in IspirazioneWales-based land artist Jon Foreman creates incredible installations from stones, leaves, and other natural finds.
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The No-BS Protest Art of the Anti-Trump Marches
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in GeneralIn nationwide demonstrations this weekend, protesters left “Dump Trump” in 2016 and opted for cheekier and artistically inclined messaging.
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UP Magazine
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UP is an NYC-based publication that centers on street art, graffiti, and creative urban culture. Each issue of UP focuses on a single subject, exploring a wide range of artists, interviews, and ideas around the theme. Our mission is to provide the art community with nuanced, provocative, and critical writing that navigates the questions of our generation. We…
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Jeff Koons Doesn’t Get It
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in GeneralWhile Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. But perhaps I’m missing the point — after all, why would Koons turn around to face the chill of the infinite universe, when he has the whole world in the…
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Astrazione, the new illustrated series by Riccardo Guasco
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In his creation process, Riccardo claims to be inspired by artistic movements such as Cubism and Futurism, but we find his work full of other references as well. Perhaps this is due to Astrazione, his new series of illustrations, which seems to be a great homage to art history. Astrazione is a project in progress that unites some of the…
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Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow
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in IspirazioneThe story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice of the street, crafting his outsider-artistic visions…
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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Open Access
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in GeneralNew York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is making all public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes, it announced today. The new Open Access policy also introduces partnerships between the museum and Creative Commons, Wikimedia, Artstor, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Art Resource, and Pinterest. https://www.metmuseum.org/policies/image-resourcesTo identify these images, look for the…
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An artist confronts photos of her father’s past lovers
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in GeneralLondon-based photographer Caroline Furneaux faced these questions after sifting through boxes of her father’s 35mm slides in the years following his sudden death in his 70s. She’d had a complex relationship with him, and felt as if his death in 2011 left things unresolved, she explained in a phone call. She let the archive sit for some…