Science Meet the scientist painter who turns deadly viruses into beautiful works of artsciencemag.org - Jon Cohen HIV, Ebola, and Zika are ugly, nasty viruses. David Goodsell makes them look beautiful, even alluring. And the unusual precision of his depictions is …
Painting Gary Lang paintings: Some pulse with life, some miss the targetLos Angeles Times - By Leah OllmanFor decades, it's been easy to get lost in Gary Lang's paintings. Head directly to the back gallery at Wilding Cran Gallery for just such an opportunity. "Susumus" (2015), the tondo that hangs there, immersive
Murals Interview with Muralist Louise Jonessmithsonianmag.com - Rihoko Ueno / BY For the Archives of American Art exhibition Bloom: Flowers from the Archives of American Art, curator Mary Savig invited the artist Louise Jones …
Interview: Artist Spends 6 Years Photographing Life’s Perfectly Timed CoincidencesMy Modern Met - Jessica StewartOver the past six years, artist Denis Cherim has been creatively using his photography to explore the small coincidences that surround us. Perfectly aligned trees, rays of light that cast interesting moments
Culture Dutch Artists Transform a Utrecht Apartment Building into a Tri-Level Trompe L’Oeil Bookcase | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Kate Sierzputowski Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed recently painted a literary trompe l’oeil mural on an apartment building in Utrecht, Netherlands. …
Origami Top 20 DIY Projects of All Time: #13 Origami Wall Displaydesignsponge.com - by Grace Bonney One of the DIY skills I have never managed to be very good at is origami. But oh how I wish I was. It is a beautiful and incredibly meaningful art …
Creativity Adults encouraged to explore artistic creativity and self-expressionsaobserver.net - Jodi Brak It’s never too late to bring some creativity into your life, and the First United Church in Salmon Arm is hosting adult-focused arts activities …
Play buttonMusic Musicians Who Are Poets: 12 Game-Changing Lyrical Mastersudiscovermusic.com - Jamie Atkins A master of what many would deem “poetic lyrics”, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature in October 2016, reigniting the long-running debate …
Nursery Rhymes 15 Children's Pop-Up Books That Are As Beautiful As They Are InteractiveRomper - Abi Berwager Schreier Pop-up books are the OG tablet. In fact, I'd argue they're cooler than a tablet because, hello, 3D. While I'm trying my best to keep my 10-month-old …
Music Videos Daylen Seu dramatically visualises emotions and mindsets in her animationsitsnicethat.com - Daniel Milroy Maher Inspired by horror manga, the futuristic animations and illustrations of California-based artist, Daylen Seu, have a similarly nightmarish aesthetic. …
Tate Modern Tate Modern publishes guide to "slow looking" as gallery visitors now spend just eight seconds looking at worksThe Telegraph - By Hannah FurnessThere was a time in the history of art that it would have been a given: when visiting a gallery, it is wise to spend some time looking at the paintings. But as access to art has widened just as attention
Art Joan Snyder’s Proserpina: a cycle of death and renewalThe Guardian - Skye SherwinBlood and glitter … Joan Snyder is a grandee of US abstract expressionist painting who has been creating gloriously improvisatory and personal works since the 1960s. Lush experiments with bodily textures,
Art Museums Offer ‘Slow Art Day’ to Celebrate the Pleasure of Patient Lookingfrieze.com - By Frieze News Desk Hundreds of museums across the world are participating in Slow Art Day, on 6 April – an annual celebration of the pleasures of spending extended …
Art From Warhol to minimalism: how painting by numbers revolutionised artThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesIt took a genius to see the genius of Dan Robbins, the inventor of painting-by-numbers who has died aged 93. For art critics, painting-by-numbers was, and is, a byword for robotic repetition and unoriginality
The Arts Sitting for Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Longtime Assistant Describes His Meticulous Processobserver.com - David D'Arcy “If you like skin, you should find people that have a lot of it,” Lucian Freud said, according to the catalogue essay authored by Michael Auping for …
Hallucinogenics The Forest Dark: Collage paintings of a magical, dark forest on an inky black backgroundcreativeboom.com In her latest series, The Forest Dark, Clare Börsch presents mixed media, collage works on canvas that features dense and luminous compositions that …
Textile Art Anni Albers on How to Be an Artistartsy.net - Alexxa Gotthardt Anni Albers in her weaving studio at Black Mountain College, 1937. Anni Albers Guggenheim Museum BilbaoRed and Blue Layers, 1954. Anni Albers Guggenheim …
Happiness How to create the work schedule of your dreamsLadders - Sarah Goff-Dupont A compressed work week means 3-day weekends every week and it’s trending big-time. Here’s how to pull it off. What if you could have 3-day weekends on …
Art How the Elements of Art Shape CreativityMy Modern Met - Jessica StewartIn order to understand any field, it’s important to have a solid foundation from which to grow. For visual art, this means understanding the elements of art. These creative building blocks are essential
Digital Art How to draw more realistic figurescreativebloq.com - Patrick J Jones, ImagineFX In this figure drawing tutorial we will focus on the torso and breasts, particularly on how the breasts change shape due to compression and the …
Drawing 10 Drawing Books That’ll Teach You Everything You Need to Know About SketchingMy Modern Met - Sara BarnesLearning to draw is one of life’s great pleasures. While many of us start (and indefinitely pause) this activity as children, it’s one that can be continued at any point in your life. If you’re someone
Painting The Surprising Hobby That Helped Me Get Through My DivorceFatherly - Lizzy Francis My divorce hit me hard. Then I picked up a paintbrush and found a way back to myself. Welcome to “How I Stay Sane,” a weekly column where real dads …
Music Technology Learn to play guitar and keyboards: easy lessons for beginnersmusicradar.com - MusicRadar Learning a musical instrument is one of those things that many people put on their to-do list, but never actually get around to, y’know, doing. This …
Painting An iPad can be used to take 3-D images of the surface of a painting to identify areas of concernabqjournal.com - Megan Bennett | Journal North Reporter Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal A team from Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Northwestern University studying the metal “soaps” in the …
Lifestyle (UK) Producing abundance of ideas then taking a break is key to creativityindependent.co.uk - Olivia Petter The process of unlocking one’s creativity differs from person to person. For some, it’s about staying up into the wee hours with copious amounts of …
Hong Kong How Instagram star Korean illustrator turns depression into art in black and whitescmp.com - Veronica Lin The minimalist black and white drawings of Korean illustrator Henn Kim, currently on show at Hong Kong’s Harbour City shopping centre, stand in stark …
An Artist’s Archeology of the MindThe New Yorker - Joshua RothmanHow Peter Sacks draws power from the hidden layers of his canvases. A painting by Peter Sacks looks one way from a distance and another up close. From twenty paces, “Amnesty,” a large triptych hanging
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Happiness Create something you deeply care about (even if it sucks)Ladders - Thomas Oppong Creation means taking an active role in the world instead of a passive one. Making an impact. Create your world instead of consuming it. The world …
