Category: Art & Design

  • The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2023 Edition

    The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2023 Edition

    The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2023 Edition Our annual list highlights the people who exist outside of an art world that favors the wealthy and privileged — or are just shit out of luck. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/864342/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2023-edition/ In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list…

  • 2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics. – The New York Times

    2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics. – The New York Times

    2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics. Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year. All free to read for a limited time. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/2023-year-in-graphics.html This year, our visual stories covered a range of subjects: artificial intelligence, war in Ukraine and Gaza, the transition to cleaner energy, natural disasters and the 50th…

  • The Global Ambitions of Invader’s Street Art | The New Yorker

    The Global Ambitions of Invader’s Street Art | The New Yorker

    The Global Ambitions of Invader’s Street Art At any given moment, millions of people are attending his expositions, knowingly or not. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/invader-artist-profile For twenty-seven years, Invader has been decorating the walls, bridges, monuments, tunnels, sidewalks, staircases, railings, gates, curbs, benches, bollards, posts, poles, pipes, columns, fountains, pools, docks, seawalls, roofs, chimneys,…

  • Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times

    Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times

    Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to…

  • An Evocative Year in New Yorker Illustrations | The New Yorker

    An Evocative Year in New Yorker Illustrations | The New Yorker

    An Evocative Year in New Yorker Illustrations A collection of some of the most striking images of 2022. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/an-evocative-year-in-new-yorker-illustrations A collection of some of the most striking images of 2022.

  • Photographer Spends Four Years Drawing 1,000 35mm Film Box Designs | PetaPixel

    Photographer Spends Four Years Drawing 1,000 35mm Film Box Designs | PetaPixel

    Photographer Spends Four Years Drawing 1,000 35mm Film Box Designs It’s a trip down memory lane. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/08/24/photographer-spends-four-years-drawing-1000-35mm-film-box-designs/ Akil Alparslan recreated a staggering amount of film roll packaging for his own pleasure, including brands such as Polaroid, Agfa, and Kodak.

  • Step Into the Tender World of a Hollywood Cameraman

    Step Into the Tender World of a Hollywood Cameraman A history of the Golden Age of Hollywood from the perspective of someone who worked behind the scenes. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/693905/step-into-the-tender-world-of-a-hollywood-cameraman/ LOS ANGELES — Part time capsule, part love letter, the exhibition If We Can’t Fix It—It Ain’t Busted at Arcane Space is a tender reconstruction…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Sohei Nishino: Listening and Assembling

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Sohei Nishino: Listening and Assembling Our memories are intimately tied to photographs. Whether a childhood portrait or sunset selfie, the photograph represents not just the captured moment… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sohei-nishino-listening-and-assembling/ Our memories are intimately tied to photographs. Whether a childhood portrait or sunset selfie, the photograph represents not just the captured moment, but…

  • The L_st Album – Photographs by Pariwat Anantachina | Essay by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

    The L_st Album – Photographs by Pariwat Anantachina | Essay by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

    The L_st Album – Photographs by Pariwat Anantachina | Essay by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture Scouring markets for discarded photo albums, Pariwat Anantachina’s intricate collages patchwork old family snaps with instruction manuals, breathing new life into abandoned pictures via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/pariwat-anantachina-the-l_st-album Scouring markets for discarded photo albums, Pariwat Anantachina’s intricate collages patchwork old family snaps…

  • Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH

    Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH

    Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH To begin this week of celebrating artists using vernacular or found photographs, we need to describe this ever expanding genre. We use the term vernacular to illustrate this week’s images because they employ the visual language of the everyday, photograph via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/06/greg-sand-chronicle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Artist Greg Sand has…

  • The Artist Intervenes: Kevin Hoth – LENSCRATCH

    The Artist Intervenes: Kevin Hoth – LENSCRATCH

    The Artist Intervenes: Kevin Hoth – LENSCRATCH In Immortal Chromatic, artist Kevin Hoth transforms the process of destruction into a cathartic act. Initially serving as a coping mechanism to a singular traumatic event, the project explores the inherent fragility and impermanence of life, and our inabi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/03/the-artist-intervenes-kevin-hoth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 In Immortal Chromatic, artist Kevin Hoth…

  • The Year in Illustration 2020 – The New York Times

    The Year in Illustration 2020 – The New York Times

    The Year in Illustration 2020 The most memorable illustrations of the year, as chosen by the art directors of The New York Times. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/multimedia/year-in-illustration.html The most memorable illustrations of 2020, chosen by the art directors of The New York Times.

  • The Constructed Self – Photographs by Karen Navarro | Interview by Liz Sales | LensCulture

    The Constructed Self – Photographs by Karen Navarro | Interview by Liz Sales | LensCulture

    The Constructed Self – Photographs by Karen Navarro | Interview by Liz Sales | LensCulture Karen Navarro constructs colorful, hand-crafted kinetic sculptures, creating photographic portraits which are as fluid as identity via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/karen-navarro-the-constructed-self Karen Navarro constructs colorful, hand-crafted kinetic sculptures, creating photographic portraits which are as fluid as identity.

  • Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73 – The New York Times

    Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73 – The New York Times

    Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73 For decades he made his art in dingy Manhattan hotel rooms, living hand-to-mouth, hoping for his big break. It finally arrived, just a few years before his death. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/arts/frederick-weston-dead.html For decades he made his art in dingy Manhattan hotel rooms, living hand-to-mouth,…

  • Clare Strand investigates communication and misinformation – British Journal of Photography

    Clare Strand investigates communication and misinformation – British Journal of Photography

    Clare Strand investigates communication and misinformation In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into a painting, employing a method proposed by George H. Eckhardt’s 1936 publication — Electronic Television via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/clare-strand-deutsche-borse-the-photographers-gallery/ In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into…

  • Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. – The New York Times

    Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. – The New York Times

    Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. He’s a master of manipulating the news media and the art market. But will he be remembered as a significant artist? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/arts/design/banksy-legacy.html He’s a master of manipulating the news media and the art market. But will he be remembered as a significant artist?

  • 20×200 : Print Information : 28 Camera Drawings

    Link: 28 Camera Drawings by Christine Berrie I enjoy creating images that contain a lot of detail. In terms of subject matter, cameras are a current favourite, with a plethora of little buttons, switches, levers and dials. As cameras in the digital age become increasingly sleek, streamlined and monochrome in design, here is a visual celebration…

  • Behind The New York Times Magazine's Redesign with DD Arem Duplessis – Grids

    Link: In June of this year, The New York Times unveiled a major redesign of their Sunday magazine, the first in almost a decade, and one of only a handful ever in its more than 100 years. Under the leadership of Design Director Arem Duplessis, a more lithe version of the magazine (smaller by about…

  • Banksy Revealed? – LA Weekly

    Link: The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash