Household Surrealism
Helga Stentzel is a Russian-born visual artist based in London. Lots of inspired work transforming everyday objects into other everyday things. / via MetaFilter
Portopia
Immersive art experience in Middletown, Ohio. Need to get out here before they wrap up on Dec 19, 2021 (thumbnail features art by Chase Melendez)
Fingerspelling Matchbooks
From the mind and hand of artist JK Keller
Pansies, 1968 by Joe Brainard
Nayland put this art on his Tumblr and I'm "reblogging" it here because I dig it lots.
Retain a beginner’s mind
Simon Collison collects links and pulls (an excellent) quote from an interview with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood as they discuss the visual language of Radiohead's album art over the years.
Korean corner store paintings
I love the care that Lee Me Kyeoung infuses into these.
Quarantine Blues
Quarantined in his flat in Chicago, Leonard Suryajaya started using the walls of his apartment as a canvas for elaborately staged tableaux. This and lots of other great new photographers and work on the Foam site.
Tatsuya Tanaka’s Miniature Calendar
Scenes created with alternative items to recreate everyday things. Smile inducing. / via Yewknee
Black is beautiful
Brooklyn-born black photographer Kwame Brathwaite inspired new viewpoints, visual language and a movement to celebrate black lives in the 60's / via Creative Mornings newsletter
Floating in space
A lovely animation of an astronaut swimming through stars
Old Book Illustrations
Not verified as open sourced images, but a trove for inspiration nonetheless
Los Angeles studio of Corita Kent designated historic cultural landmark
Glad it wasn't razed for a parking lot. Another thing to add to the list of places I would very much love to visit.
JR and the Eiffel Tower
Another wonderful installation
An interview with Geoff McFetridge
"The root of what I do is an art practice applied to design. I’m designing art." / via TMN
James Turrell’s Akhob
I'm updating my list of places I want to go. This installation above a Louis Vuitton store in Vegas is on it.
Geometric Digital Art
Formatted for a Samsung Frame TV. This feels like my sort of NFT because I am old fashioned. / via swiss-miss
Cor Blok’s Tolkien illustrations
Dutch artist Cor Blok passed away. His illustrations appeared in 60s Dutch editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Here's a thread with examples of his work. / via @arkanjil
Some relationships have to end
Because that version of you has ended. / via wehavebecomevikings
Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp
Born from a daily drawing practice responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded in real time resulting in 225 drawings created over eight months / via Creative Mornings Cincinnati
National COVID Memorial Wall
A wall of hearts representing those lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom
Black Art: In The Absence of Light
Excellent HBO Documentary explores two centuries of art by African-Americans, and the path they forged for contemporary Black artists. / via Brian Hill
Type exploration w/ orange peels
I always enjoy Manfred Westreicher's explorations with type
On Belonging
A collection of stories and photographs about the feeling of unity and belonging from the Over-The-Rhine community in Cincinnati. Wonderful work by Asa Featherstone, IV.
Tiles
Each tile is a layered set of matching art. Keep finding pairs and build up combos. Its not about perfect matches, but matching elements. Took a while, super dig now. / via Thor
Diana Beltran Herrera
Sculptures and designs with paper / via thisiscolossal
Lily Hevesh, domino artist
“Lily Topples the World” is a film debuting at SXSW. My friend @AmyMPurcell on Twitter says it's fantastic and I'm adding it to my queue. This profile by The Washington Post provides some insight.
Enoch Ku’s Ordinary Sacramento
An ongoing project documenting the visual language of the Californian city
Gergely Gizella’s personal website
Is unlike any I have experienced. / via Belong.io
Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
There's wonderful art throughout this feature that spans illustration, photography, video and poetry
Greyscale Prisms : Chapter 1.
A new series of black and white paintings by Matt W. Moore. Bonus? A behind the scenes video showing process.
Plus Equals
A quarterly zine in which Rob Weychert explores algorithmic art with a focus on combinatorics.
Banksy Creates Bob Ross-Dubbed Process Video
of New Work Depicting Oscar Wilde Escaping Prison
Snow Drawings at Catamount Lake by Sonja Hinrichsen
We’re Not Really Strangers
Fall Back, Spring Ahead
Roman Emperor Project
ALLSHIPS | A Creative Community
Masks, Toilet Paper, and Thermometers Transform into Miniature, Outdoor Adventures
Stranger Fruit by Jon Henry
Who Gets to Call It Art?
Tomorrow’s On Fire
Powerfully good animated short by Darcy Prendergast / via WAXY
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Mary Kate McDevitt
Minted
Crosscurrents “Good Hope”
Vincent Bal is a “shadowologist” and filmmaker
Vincent Bal – Shadowology
MagicaVoxel
How 10 Famous Artists Would Plate Thanksgiving Dinner
Vacation with an Artist
How Cecelia Condit’s Video Art Became a Viral Curse for Teens on TikTok
Teeter Totter Wall
MWM: Shadovvs
Digging these street photos by Richard Sandler
The Viking Funeral
Kyle Scheele is asking folks to send in (or submit online) the thing or things that you’re letting go of. He's going to make them into scales of a dragon on a viking ship, and then burn it.
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
This museum and library in Columbus, Ohio is now open to the public! Just added to my to-do list.
Artists Rights 101
All artists need to know how to protect their intellectual property rights, including copyrights, rights of publicity or personality, and moral rights.