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

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A cow made of items on a clothesline

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)

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Colorful geometric lines covering every surface in a room

Fingerspelling Matchbooks

From the mind and hand of artist JK Keller

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Matchbooks made to look like hands doing sign language

Pansies, 1968 by Joe Brainard

Nayland put this art on his Tumblr and I'm "reblogging" it here because I dig it lots.

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A collage of pansies

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.

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Kid A amnesia

Korean corner store paintings

I love the care that Lee Me Kyeoung infuses into these.

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A painting of a Korean corner store

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.

And elaborate still life photograph with items collected during a pandemic

Tatsuya Tanaka’s Miniature Calendar

Scenes created with alternative items to recreate everyday things. Smile inducing. / via Yewknee

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A paper shredder represents falling rain in a miniature diorama

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

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Photo of black woman with elaborate headpiece

Floating in space

A lovely animation of an astronaut swimming through stars

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CG astronaut in a sea of stars

Old Book Illustrations

Not verified as open sourced images, but a trove for inspiration nonetheless

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An illustration of orange flowers

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.

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Nuns making art and designing things!

JR and the Eiffel Tower

Another wonderful installation

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Optical illusion using the Eiffel Tower

An interview with Geoff McFetridge

"The root of what I do is an art practice applied to design. I’m designing art." / via TMN

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An acrylic abstract painting of 10 people in a circular embrace

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.

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Figures stand washed in orange and pink light

Geometric Digital Art

Formatted for a Samsung Frame TV. This feels like my sort of NFT because I am old fashioned. / via swiss-miss

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Abstract design in a digital frame

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

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Some relationships have to end

Because that version of you has ended. / via wehavebecomevikings

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Art by The Female Warhol that says some realtionships have to end

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

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Black and white posters by Piotr Szyhalski

National COVID Memorial Wall

A wall of hearts representing those lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom

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Woman writing inside a heart painted on a wall

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

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Black Art

Type exploration w/ orange peels

I always enjoy Manfred Westreicher's explorations with type

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Type made of orange peels

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.

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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

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Geometric tiles

Diana Beltran Herrera

Sculptures and designs with paper / via thisiscolossal

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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.

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A spiral of dominoes in rainbow colors

Enoch Ku’s Ordinary Sacramento

An ongoing project documenting the visual language of the Californian city

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Gergely Gizella’s personal website

Is unlike any I have experienced. / via Belong.io

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A still from an animated personal website

Teens on a Year That Changed Everything

There's wonderful art throughout this feature that spans illustration, photography, video and poetry

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Quarantine inspired drawing by Parrish André

Greyscale Prisms : Chapter 1.

A new series of black and white paintings by Matt W. Moore. Bonus? A behind the scenes video showing process.

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A black and white geometric painting

Plus Equals

A quarterly zine in which Rob Weychert explores algorithmic art with a focus on combinatorics.

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Visual pieces combined to make new forms

Banksy Creates Bob Ross-Dubbed Process Video

of New Work Depicting Oscar Wilde Escaping Prison

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Snow Drawings at Catamount Lake by Sonja Hinrichsen

Good art always looks good. / via Things To Click

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We’re Not Really Strangers

Fascinating set of prompts to inspire deeper relationships. Invest in the video and give it a watch.

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Fall Back, Spring Ahead

November 1st, shit gets darker. November 3rd, let’s make it brighter.

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Roman Emperor Project

Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, Daniel Voshart has created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors. / via Mefi

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ALLSHIPS | A Creative Community

"We stand for quality over quantity, substance over numbers, cohesion over conflict, opinion over algorithms, thoughtful content over snackable, sugary, viral hits. We stand together, not apart." / via Luke Beard

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Stranger Fruit by Jon Henry

Black mothers and sons recreating the Pietà by Michelangelo. Chills

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Who Gets to Call It Art?

A wild ride through the 1960s downtown New York art scene as seen through the eyes of legendary Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, Henry Geldzahler. added towatch / via Yewknee

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Tomorrow’s On Fire

Powerfully good animated short by Darcy Prendergast / via WAXY

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Alexandra Kehayoglou

Beautiful, organic textile work / via Guy Schmidt

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Mary Kate McDevitt

Lettering and Illustration (and some lovely items in her shop to boot)

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Enjoy Mary Kate

Minted

Wendy says this place is great to get custom greeting cards made. Looks like they do lots of stuff!

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Crosscurrents “Good Hope”

Yup. That cover made me look, long. Dig. / via DJ

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Vincent Bal is a “shadowologist” and filmmaker

He uses the shadows of ordinary objects to complete his artwork / via @voicesandnoises

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Vincent Bal – Shadowology

Aforelinked instagram account

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MagicaVoxel

A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer. (Think Minecraft for art) / via waxy

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How 10 Famous Artists Would Plate Thanksgiving Dinner

This intrigues and disturbs me.

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Vacation with an Artist

YES TO THIS / via SwissMiss

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vacation with an artist

How Cecelia Condit’s Video Art Became a Viral Curse for Teens on TikTok

Short answer: Reddit. But TikTok is a weird and interesting manifestation of the odd corners of the web, mirrored and duplicated ad nauseam.

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Teeter Totter Wall

Powerful art about the border

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MWM: Shadovvs

Lovely new work and approach by Matt W. Moore. Inspired in part by cast-iron entryway security gates

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Digging these street photos by Richard Sandler

Taken in NYC and Boston between 1977-2001 / via Khoi Vinh

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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.

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Lettering on a cardboard viking ship

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.

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Cartoon drawing of a cartoonist

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.

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Artists Rights logo with circular red letters