Blogs about Art

A media scholar explains autofiction and looks at how it is embodied in Natalie Wynn's ContraPoints videos. Continue reading → The post How Autofiction, the Buzzy Literary Category, Helps Us Make Sense of YouTube appeared …

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 …

Clown with young child in bed, ? hospital Biomedical ScienceMedical clowns in a U.S hospital health-care team started when a professional clown at NY’s Big Apple Circus founded Clown Care in 1986. Cl­own­ing became a …

It’s goodbye to living in my Hove garret amongst the rooftops, chimneys, and crows because last week I signed the tenancy agreement for a new flat in Hastings, and I’m moving in there this weekend. …

*What a fantasy. The post Esposizione di Torino (S. A. Ambrosio, 1911) appeared first on Artmaker Blog.

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 …

Last year I was asked to contribute to the Serpentine Galleries’ Infinite Ecologies Marathon, a prelude to their Inifinite Ecologies programme, with something that expressed what I thought was missing from most discussion and practice …

Saw this in Marius Watz’s Twitter feed and wanted to make a note of it. "plotter.vision is a single-serving website that lets you upload 3D STL files, interactively position them, and then renders them with …

This summer, we're in the process of selling my family home, at the lake in central New York that I've written about and photographed for this blog many times over the years. My feelings about …

Did you know that Indigenous women are 4x more likely than non-Indigenous women to be victims of violence? When it comes to the homicide rate, First Nations, Inuit or Métis women and girls are murdered …

“The Urchins,” Marina Bay, Singapore. All images © Choi + Shine Architects, shared with permission Whether working in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Fukuoka City, Japan, Jin Choi and Thomas Shine have found that crochet is a …

June 20 – July 27, 2024

Obscure I – abstract photograph of a milkweed seed pod. The pod of a milkweed plant is a study of contrasts. Its dark ragged shell opens to reveal a soft grey lining, like silk. This …

Okay, I know: the photo may not make you dream: but this is my first test bench dedicated to Linux graphics tablets, and it's a big change for me. It's all in my garage, and …

This blog post will delve into the details of each tool you need for plein air painting.

202311″ x 7″ x 10″Bronze This self portrait was generated by using a 3D scanner to scan my face, illustrating how the technology imperfectly sees me. The result is full of artifacts. Pieces of skin …

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I’ve had this RPPC of “Aunt Boo” for a while, and finally decided to learn her story. Turns out she was a member of Bob Burns comedy troupe rather than a poor, struggling Ozarkian. Several …

I was asked recently if I’d ever written anything about British illustrator Frank C. Papé (1878–1972). The answer was no for two reasons, the first being that where book illustration is concerned I like to …

“Handbag of the Gods”: detail of a gypsum stone relief carving of an Apkulla, from the northwest palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, c BCE 883-859, acquired in 1921 for The Walters Art Museum, …