Another inspiring talk by Amanda Palmer (Piano-slayer, ukulele-freak, singer, blogger, lover of Neil Gaiman, and co-founder of the Brechtian punk cabaret duo, The Dresden Dolls) who is ruling the Internet when she has the time for it and George Takei is on a holiday. Amanda… Read More
Preparing a big exhibition can take years and lead you to all kinds of interesting places around the world. The Getty’s drawings curator Julian Brooks can tell you all about it and he’s actually doing exactly that right now on Facebook and Twitter where you… Read More
The website Every Painter Paints Himself reveals the secrets behind true art in ways that, until now, only artists could. With short entries, encouraging you to spend more time studying images than reading the text, the site demonstrates the basic themes around which poetic painters… Read More
Movies in Color is a blog featuring stills from films and their corresponding color palettes, a tool to promote learning and inspiration, an excellent source for designers. Movies In Color is curated and created by graphic designer Roxy Radulescu who says: “So far, the blog… Read More
Terry Gilliam’s daughter Holly started sorting out her father’s drawings, designs, sketches or whatever else she finds in the basement and puts it on a blog. Holly Gilliam: “In October 2011 I took on the mamooth task of organising my father’s archive – all his… Read More
“For the past three years, Aman Ali, 27, a comedian from Ohio, has spent Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting (it began this year on July 20), visiting a different mosque every night”, writes The New York Times. “With Bassam Tariq, a photographer, he… Read More
Art Basel is the most significant of all the hundreds of art fairs that take place each year. It is the fair where some of the best artworks are sold for some of the highest prices. Art of the Middle East had a look at… Read More
Nicholas Forrest from The Art Market Blog starts a new series of interviews here: “The number of websites that facilitate the online sale and purchase of fine art has increased significantly over the last few years as collectors and investors become more confident in the… Read More
This is the first in a series of videos from percolate.com explaining the shifts we’re seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. In this video, we wanted to try to get into the… Read More
Meet Bill Taylor, a data manager in Durham, North Carolina who recreates iconic works of art on a whiteboard in his cube. He spends only two to five minutes per day on his drawings, taking roughly six weeks to finish each piece — and then… Read More
