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Replacing Security Guards with the Arts Transforms School
May 3, 2013 By 3 Comments
Three years after getting rid of security guards, Orchard Gardens is safer than ever and students are blossoming.
Artist Surprises New York City Subway Riders With Instant Portraits
April 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
Yuriy Modlikskiy keeps stacks of sketchbooks chronicling the faces of New Yorkers he thought were interesting enough to draw.
Hear What Every Neighborhood Was Like 20 Years Ago from Any Payphone in Manhattan (Video)
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Find out what was happening on any block in 1993.
Open Thread: How Well Do You Separate Art and Artist?
March 29, 2013 By 6 Comments
You love the work; you hate the person who made it. How do you navigate that?
Geishas, Oil, and Marseilles: Art by Jack Varnell
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Jesse Mitchell reviews Jack Varnell’s art and find it reminiscent of “James Rosenquist, Raoul Hausmann and the conceptual art from the film Blade Runner.”
To My Uncle Dickie
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CJ Kaplan remembers the man who taught him to love The Three Stooges, Mad Magazine, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and other great works of art.
After Seeing Fine Arts Being Cut From Schools … Will My Child Have the Same Opportunities That I Did? (Video)
March 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The short documentary “The Missing Note” shows how fine arts are not just fun but integral for students and their education and what we can do to save them.
Tourette’s: The Ultimate Aphrodisiac
February 18, 2013 By 1 Comment
Josh Hanagarne is glad that some things don’t have to be a secret anymore.
The Joke That Took Two Years to Write
February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Creating something doesn’t just happen.
Urinals, Graffiti, and Boys Being Seen
February 5, 2013 By 3 Comments
Being invisible in a high price to pay for being a teenage boy.
The Art Requires the Whole Man.
January 31, 2013 By 3 Comments
Philip Le Reflects on the Factors Behind his Quest for Success and his Start Towards the Reconciliation of Such a Burden.
Mr. Yeats Must Identify Nature
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mr. Yeats Must Identify Nature I loved you there Like Adam loves Eve chewing your bubble gum and drinking cappuccino An unusual woman Dressed in infinite symbols You—created by some lonesome God for a no-symbols man with a pathology of desire I prattled aloud about passion past you Signifying my forever love You did [...]
Massive Trove of William Blake Drawings Uncovered
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A lost trove of William Blake’s art has been uncovered, art that went unappreciated when it was made.
Gender, Focus, and Comics: an Interview With Winston Rowntree
January 20, 2013 By 3 Comments
Winston Rowntree breaks the rules of comic strips to break down assumptions about gender.
“Play with your food, try new ingredients, make weird stuff, get messy, be creative and don’t worry about whether or not what you are making is going to be a masterpiece. It is only food.”
This was a comment by Arthur MacMaste on the post “Celebrity Chefs Like Gordon Ramsay Make Cooking Cool for Boys Too”.