Aesthetics for Birds
An aesthetics and philosophy of art blog for a general audience: theories, terms, art and cultural criticism, interviews, roundtables, news.
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How Spotify and its Genres Define Who We Are
Spotify and its bizarre, hyper-specific genres are rewriting how we understand music. Why? And should we bother fighting back? Continue reading → The post How Spotify and its Genres Define Who We Are appeared first …
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Amy Goodchild — Blog
I’m an artist based in London. I use code and other technology to create art which explores generativity, group experience, and interaction.
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Chaos in the medium: watercolour plotting
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …
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ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly
History, art history and architecture of Britain & Empire, Europe, Mediterranean & North America, 1640-1940.
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Bruno Bettelheim: a brilliant psychologist?
Bruno Bettelheim Tantor mediaBruno Bettelheim (1903–90) was born in Vienna, son of a middle-class Jewish lumber merchant. He entered Vienna Uni, but was forced to leave to take over his family business when his father …
The Artist’s Notebook
Paul Watson’s notes on ongoing artwork, giving an insight into the creative process.
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The Gothic Studies RSS Starter Pack
Last week I wrote about the idea of copying Bluesky’s concept of “Starter Packs” to create a "British Weird" starter pack for RSS feeds (rather than Bluesky accounts), along with instructions of how to set …
By Paul Watson, 625 words
Artmaker Blog
At Share Festival we always want to know how technology art is made, and the best ways to make it.
By Bruce Sterling.
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MEDIAL DISORDERS. INTERPRETIVE AND NON-STATISTICAL COMPENDIUM OF TECHNOLOGICAL DISORDERS
*How could that not be good? *Two thirds of it is Italian! https://inactual.bigcartel.com/product/medial-disorders-interpretive-and-non-statistical-compendium-of-technological-disorders The post MEDIAL DISORDERS. INTERPRETIVE AND NON-STATISTICAL COMPENDIUM OF TECHNOLOGICAL DISORDERS appeared first on Artmaker Blog.
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BLAKE GOPNIK on art
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THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez…
THE FRIDAY PIC is an installation shot from “Amerika,” the wonderful new projection by Javier Téllez at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, a two-year-old space in Greenwich Village in New York. In today’s …
booktwo.org | James Bridle
The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006.
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Shipping Seagrass to the Venice Biennial
We’re raising money to take an ecological artwork to Venice. Support us here. In 2022, my partner and I co-founded the artist’s collective Vessel on the island of Aegina to explore creative approaches to ecology, …
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Brendan Dawes
collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things.
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Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers
Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers Great lecture by David Spiegelhalter on chance, randomness and probability. The section on how no two card shuffles have ever been the same is …
the cassandra pages
An artist, graphic designer, writer and publisher.
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Happy 100, Dad - You Almost Made It!
A few days after my mother died, a month shy of her 83rd birthday, my father and I were raking the front lawn in preparation for the gathering after her funeral. He stood up straight, …
Cendrine Marrouat - Artist
A poet, photographer, multi-genre author, fiction writer, co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms, and creator of literary forms.
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Early photography: Group of miners
Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography... The post Early photography: Group of miners first appeared on Cendrine Marrouat - Artist.
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Colossal
Art, design, and visual culture.
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Through Gestural Oil Paintings, Maria Calandra Guides Her Stream of Consciousness Onto Canvas
While traditional plein air painters capture their surroundings while outdoors, artist Maria Calandra takes a different approach. By roaming the coastal headlands of Maine, exploring the waters of Florida, and venturing out to the rolling …
By Jackie Andres, 227 words
Contemporary Art Daily
New art exhibitions and performances from around the world are published every day on our website and in our newsletter.
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Merlin Carpenter at Peles
November 30, 2024 – January 18, 2025
Daniel Sroka Open Studio
I am a fine art nature photographer, and these are my reflections on making art: the inspiration, the process, and the business.
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Year end review 2024
It’s time to start my Year End Review of my art business. I do this every December, reviewing progress on all projects, art creation, marketing, sales, etc. Since I already know that my sales were …
By Daniel Sroka, 350 words
David Revoy
Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
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When World Collides : the new and improved Pepper&Carrot website
As I'm writing this, I'm still trying to catch my breath after diving head-first into the rabbit hole that was my project "When Worlds Collide". It's been a month and a half of intense work, …
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Doodlers Anonymous
A modern art blog featuring a vast archive of creative inspiration, hand-drawn interviews by contemporary artists, and more.
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Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Plein-Air Painting Essentials for Landscapes
This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.
Doug McCune - Data Artist
I'm an Oakland artist who embraces data exploration and map making in an attempt to come to terms with the chaos of urban environments.
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Friends
20246″ x 6″ x 1″Bronze, black patina The post Friends first appeared on Doug McCune.
Drawing Matter
Exploring the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice.
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Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop
The following text recounts the week-long drawing workshop held at Shatwell Farm in August 2024. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read invited expert Sergio Ekerman’s account of the …
By Jesper Authen, 510 words
Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.
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Calamity Ice Bombs and the Coming Super Man. D.W. Matter Marches from Hell
The Coming World-Wide Calamity was originally published in 1943 and sold for a dime. There isn’t anything remarkable about it except the cover. One thing I’ve noticed about modern zealot evangelicals causing havoc on our …
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A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
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The Breath of Creation (c. 1926–34) by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. • At Wormwoodiana: “…Gresham was well-read enough to know that while magic can be more than a MacGuffin in a fantasy story, neither fantasy nor thriller …
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the making of, by greg allen.
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35 Days Wait at 980 Madison
Cy Twombly, V Day(s) Wait at Jianyuguan, 1980, one of only two images of one of only two copies of this artist book documented online, one at the Menil, and the one from whence I …