Da Vinci scholar may have found a
Da Vinci scholar may have found a long lost Da Vinci fresco.
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Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their
Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their fall/winter Artist in Residence program. If you get in, I will be within heckling distance of your workspace.
Drawing Restraint 9 is the first collaboration by
Drawing Restraint 9 is the first collaboration by super-couple Matthew Barney and Bjork.
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NOW THEN online exhibit
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NOW THEN online exhibit. “What did professional comic artists draw like when they were 12 years old”?
Unknown painting by Edvard Munch found behind another canvas
Unknown painting by Edvard Munch found behind another canvas.
Chen Shaofeng paints his subjects while they paint him
Chen Shaofeng paints his subjects while they paint him. The results are hung side-by-side in his show.
Interview with Jonah Peretti, director of Research
Interview with Jonah Peretti, director of Research and Development at Eyebeam.
A street sculpture by REVS was recently
A street sculpture by REVS was recently stolen in my neighborhood.
GUI: a re-presentation of the Adobe Photoshop
GUI: a re-presentation of the Adobe Photoshop interface within a 3-dimensional space.
58 days worth of drawing exercises in Microsoft
58 days worth of drawing exercises in Microsoft Excel by Danielle Aubert.
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?
Whatever happened to the subjects of Diane Arbus’s photographs?. CNN’s Anderson Cooper was that weird looking baby?
Secret Wall Tattoos
Secret Wall Tattoos. People are removing art from hotel room walls, creating their own art on the wall beneath, and then replacing the art of top of it for others to discover at a later time.
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus
If you haven’t yet, the Diane Arbus exhibition at the Met is worth checking out. Open through May 30.
Victoria Reynolds paints meat
Victoria Reynolds paints meat. Meat as subject, not meat as canvas. Very strange and cool.
NYC2012 is using the Union Square clock
NYC2012 is using the Union Square clock art work to promote NY’s 2012 Olympic bid. One of the artists who did the piece is not thrilled about it being used for advertising.
How a couple of mathematicians helped the
How a couple of mathematicians helped the Met accurately photograph some priceless tapestries. The difficulty in piecing together the different photographs was because when the tapestries were taken off the wall, they “began to breathe, expanding, contracting, shifting”…that is, they were changing between photos.
Street art legend Revs is back, but
Street art legend Revs is back, but this time he’s (almost) legal and working with iron sculpture. I’ve seen a bunch of his work in Dumbo.
Interview with Cory Archangel about his video game-related art
Interview with Cory Arcangel about his video game-related art.
Evany is back.
One of my five favorite web-type people has resurfaced. Finally. After an absence that seems about three years long, Evany is back. If you’ve never been to her site, go. Now. If you’ve been there before, she’s got some new content up. Plus, she’s now the senior editor at Webmonkey.
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