Help give clean water to people who don’t have it. Join our campaign Water from the Arts This is easy to answer. Without clean water artists would die. There would be no one to paint, sing, dance or tell stories. Without clean water, audiences would die. There would be no one to look at the [...]

Today, photographs are taken from devices in our pockets, then beamed to a worldwide audience in a matter of moments. At the dawn of photography, the equipment was large and cumbersome, developing glass plates to reveal images was an intense process, and color, of course, didn’t exist. To take photos required an expedition of many [...]

From the moment we began pumping electricity out to homes and businesses, we chose a completely utilitarian path. The designs for cables and towers were great invention and engineering. But what they looked like was solely based on use, not the people who had to live with them. How would a mass of cables look [...]

In a post several years ago, Artist Astronauts, Artist Cosmonauts, Artists in Space, we covered a lot of history of art and artists in space. Lately this topic has re-entered the news. History Detectives on PBS covers a story trying to prove the fabled Moon Museum true or false. Watch the full episode. See more [...]

At this Ted Talk, Ravin Agrawai presents an overview of 10 upcoming contemporary Indian artists. Below is the talk, and more in depth information about each artist. More about the artists Bharti Kher at Hauser & Wirth Alwar Balasubramaniam Chitra Ganesh Excerpt from Rabbithole Jitish Kallat Perspectives on contemporary art, interview with The Economist N.S. [...]

City Hostel, in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, features 54 rooms, each designed and decorated by 47 Seattle artists. The hostel also features a 20 seat movie theatre, with frequent art events, screenings and openings. In 2008, City Hostel was voted the top hostel in the United States by Hostelworld.com. Artists were asked to volunteer [...]

Here is a timelapse video of cheesy art posted by Eclectic Asylum Art. The portrait is made from 4 varieties of Cheetos (much like this more traditional agriculture art is made from 4 varieties of rice), using 2,000 individual Cheeto.

Artist Charles Clary creates organic sculptures from deep layers of cut colored paper. From Wired: Artist Charles Clary says he wants his constructions to appear ever-expanding — overwhelming exhibition spaces like replicating viruses or reverberating sound waves. Inspired by microorganisms, anthills, and auditory phenomena, he layers colored paper to build up the variegated textures and [...]

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five as his own science fiction take on his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War II. Letters of Note prints his letters home after being released from his German camp, Schlachthof Fünf – Slaughterhouse Five. In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private [...]

Musicians, filmmakers and performing artists all invest a lot of time and money into writing, rehearsal, design, and sometimes character development and technology innovation. This investment can include hard costs and the time of dozens, or even hundreds, of people. For musicians and filmmakers, the fruits of their investment live on. The films and music [...]

青森県の田舎館村の村民は、1993年にそれぞれ成長したときの色の違う4種類の稲を使い田んぼに巨大な絵画を描き始めました。 これは、時をおって撮影した絵画の成長過程です. 農家の人たちは、コンピューターを使いデザインを作り、どこにどの種を植えるのか決定していきました。 近くからの眺め それ以後日本の他の地域、（さらに外国でも）同じような作品が作られるようになり、 それと同時に、田舎舘の作品はさらに複雑になり、洗練されて入った。 農家との取り決めにより作品は、複数の田んぼにまたがって作られるようになりました。 パラグライダーからの眺め 地上から 関連記事 Homegrown Art（英文）–ジャパンタイムズ 青森県南津軽郡田舎館村 –ウキペディア How to Farm a Great Work of Art –サロン 田舎舘村公式ホームページ

The PBS Newshour Art Beat reports that students of Haiti’s only film school, Ciné Institute, have kept filming after the earthquake, shooting and editing despite their own personal circumstances. Ciné Institute Students Effort from Ciné Institute on Vimeo. Learn more Ciné Institute Ciné Institute online videos at Vimeo Conversation: Students from Haiti’s Only Film School [...]

San Francisco Bay Area photographer Lane Hartwell gathered photographers to publish a special magazine titled Onè Respe to benefit Haiti. The images celebrate life in Haiti, all taken before the earthquake. Other participating photographers include Mary Ellen Mark, Chet Gordon and Peter Pereira. The magazine was printed through HP’s MagCloud service. HP has decided to [...]

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I’ve had friends who collected Star Wars toys and kept them in the original packaging to protect their value. This certainly protects the monetary value, but doesn’t it deprive you of getting everything out of that toy it was created for? If you want to spark your imagination, have a fun afternoon, and play with [...]