When Fanart Goes Pro
There are different kinds of art. There is mainstream art and independent art. Classic art and contemporary art. Fanart and real art. Right? Wrong. There are different ways to see and make art and some...
View ArticleIn the Name of Good Taste: An Art Exhibition
The Gothenburg City Library regularly offers space, free of charge, for young artists to showcase their work. For a couple of weeks their paintings, sculptures, etc. are displayed to library visitors...
View ArticleBuilding an Art Collection on a Budget
Transitioning from posters taped to the wall to hanging framed paintings and canvases is one of the unspoken transitions many take into adulthood. Even if you still have posters on your wall, they’re...
View ArticleAuctions: Things You Never Knew You Wanted
There’s something awe-inspiring about a museum, about going into a grand hall full of “priceless” works of art. Museums are edifying and educational and almost sacred. The setting and entire experience...
View ArticleNight Vision: Photography After Dark
Early September is often a transition month for museums, at least in New York, where the big fall exhibitions are still being put up. However, you can still catch a tiny (only three rooms) but...
View ArticleInfinite Jest: The History of Caricature
Not many museum exhibitions set out to make you laugh. Over the years, the Prints & Drawings department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken advantage of its relatively low-key position in a...
View ArticleParis Museums: Off the Beaten Track
Some of the most interesting art museums and the exhibitions that stay with you the longest are the ones that focus less on the art. The ones that accomplish this most easily are house museums, which...
View ArticleCreative Journaling Techniques for Non-Journalers
I’ve always found the notion of journaling very romantic. I would imagine myself lying in a field somewhere with a leather-bound journal balanced on my knee as I scribbled down deeply profound thoughts...
View ArticleJean-Antoine Watteau: Renegade Rococo
The Rococo gets a lot of flak from art-lovers and diffidents alike. Too flouncy, too silly, too full of simple, seductive pleasures. Basically: too pretty. For some reason it’s unfashionable to relish...
View ArticleThe Pictures Tell The Story: A Review of Jess Fink’s “Chester 5000 XYV”
Many people balk at the idea that “comics” are a form of art. An equal amount of (not necessarily the same) people probably also consider depictions of sexual acts to not be a form of art. So what is...
View ArticleThe Art of Craft: Crafting Techniques in Contemporary Art
The adjective “crafty” needs a better publicist. The negative connotation that has developed around the word is inaccurate and off-putting; when a person hears the word “crafty,” synonyms associated...
View ArticleNew Islamic Galleries at the Met
Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia Such a portentous-sounding title has not been bestowed upon anything related to this region since Borodin’s...
View ArticleDIY Art: Make Your Walls Pretty
“What is Art? Are WE art? Is ART art?” ~ Lisa Turtle Art is a subjective term. One patron’s masterpiece is another patron’s W.T.F. No one person can decide what truly qualifies as “art” (although...
View ArticleA Visual Heartbreak: A Review of Craig Thompson’s HABIBI
If you haven’t been exposed to the work of Craig Thompson yet, you have been deprived of a true aesthetic experience. Craig Thompson is an artist who puts an immense amount of detail into his work; not...
View ArticleBe an Analogue Photographer: Nothing Says ‘Cool’ Like Old School
Since the dawn of the digital camera, film has nearly become extinct; after all, why keep up the uncertain, expensive, and time-consuming hobby that is film photography when you can take endless...
View ArticleOld Masters in New York
New York doesn’t usually get the best of the Old Masters (that’s reserved for the London and Paris sales, from whence the stuff originates), but there are a lot of vitally important pieces coming up at...
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