GraffitiStreet Store - Buy Urban Art: Originals, Limited Edition Prints — GraffitiStreet is a leading UK urban art gallery, offering authentic Banksy prints and artworks with Pest Control certification, alongside works by pioneering street artists including Invader, STIK, Bordalo
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events — The Art Newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events.
Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes' Sculptures — "The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.
Linear cosine palettes – Notes from a data witch — Kind of a generative art thing, but mostly an attempt by the author to prove to herself that a she can write a short blog post without turning it into a goddamn monograph
A View From the Easel — “I feed pistachios to neighborhood crows and jays.”
Best LEGO deal: Save 15% on the LEGO Ideas River Steamboat set — Build your own boat and proudly display it at home.
Four Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio — A British docudrama serves as a salutary primer on the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject.
David Hockney’s Endless Scroll — The late artist’s digital paintings at Serpentine, Tate gets a new director, beyond the myth of Brazilian modernist Chico da Silva, and more.
Pace Gallery’s Hall of Mirrors — Despite a tightly controlled narrative, the mega-gallery’s downsizing has left more questions than answers, with some workers and artists describing a disorienting experience.
Brooklyn Street Art | …loves you more every day. — Street art culture.
June 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists — Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies.
watched someone paint the same corner of their studio wall for three months. turned out they were testing paint colors to see which one made the shadows look less lonely
4 classic Windows tools that did things Windows 11 still can't — In some ways, Windows 11 is still behind older versions of Windows.
Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike — A month after a historic Venice Biennale strike, groups say they will withhold their labor this Friday, June 12, in a call for better working conditions and in solidarity with Palestine.
Toy Story 5 is a surprisingly thoughtful critique of technology — Toy Story 5 introduces a tablet as a villain, but it's also smart enough to realize tech isn't always bad. Parents just need to step up.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine — A free library of the entire web's memory.
Atlas Obscura Lists — Curated lists of wonders.
Adaptalux Wants to Make Macro Lighting Easy — Macro lighting made easy.
Beer With a Painter: Keltie Ferris — “I am playing with the building blocks of painting,” the artist told me at his studio in Woodstock, where he experiments with gestural compositions and monumental body prints.
A View From the Easel — “One of my favorite museums is the street itself.”
How my images are dithered | dead.garden — Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
A People’s History of Mount Rushmore — Eight art books reframe America 250 and stock photography in the age of AI.
A teen was killed at a Seattle protest. New video evidence shows what really happened — An 18-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's <em>Embedded</em> podcast and a review of more than a dozen videos from the night of the shooting reveal the most comprehensive…
Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem — Representing Arabic script on a computer has been problematic from the very beginning. In this series, we shall explore some of the solutions offered. First, we need to understand what is so proble…
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine — Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Kim Dacres Wants You to Be Like Rubber — The artists sculpts community tributes from found tires, inspired by its reslience and ability to absorb trauma.
WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web — The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.
Venezuelan Artists Come Together — Artists share stories of grief and community after deadly earthquakes; plus, Mamdani’s budget for culture in NYC.
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mechanic bought a 1967 chevelle with no engine. spent three months finding out the original owner just... didn't feel like starting it one day in 1983 and never came back.
The Unruly Ceramic Beings of Kathy Butterly — The artist’s quasi-vessels incorporate folds, indentations, apertures, and coverts, which hint at bodily, biomorphic, and natural forms.
Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter — TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The form
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online — Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism — Matthew Butterick
Dortmund vs. Hamburger SV 2026 livestream: How to watch Bundesliga for free — Live stream select fixtures from the Bundesliga without spending anything.
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard? — The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction — “Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
Portrait of a Papal Artist — In Rome, an exhibition explores Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s relationship to his most powerful patron, Pope Urban VIII.
July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists — These grants, open calls, fellowships, and residencies for artists all have deadlines in July and August. Apply!
This Just In: Milwaukee Transit Passes — In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.
A View From the Easel — “Sometimes it's infinite folding and binding, and I just spend the day or weekend doing that.”
Roberto Lugo’s Colossal Ode to Puerto Rico Rises in Madison Square Park — Hand-painted portraits of Bad Bunny, his parents, and other inspiring figures mix with sweet memories of boyhood summers in the artist’s latest work.
Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress — The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
Genius | Song Lyrics & Knowledge — Genius is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.
We Must Protect South American Rock Art — Given the region’s abundant petroglyphs, why are there so few legal protections and only one World Heritage inscription?
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode — In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people…
The Art Story: Visual Art Movements, Artists, Ideas, and Definitions — The Art Story is the History of Visual Art that is optimized for the web: we clearly and graphically overview and analyze classical and modern artists, movements, and ideas.
Meghann Stephenson's Tender Paintings Contrast Women's Agency with 'Acceptable Behavior' — 'Queen of the Neighborhood!' will include a suite of new paintings that correspond to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's 'Inferno.'
Perseus Digital Library — Greek and Roman texts and tools.
Our Favorite Fans Are on Sale to Help With Summer Heat Waves (2026) — We’re still in the dog days of summer—keep your cool with deals on the best fans we’ve tested for on the go and at home.
Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum — The two-floor show will premiere new works alongside the artist’s iconic pieces, such as "Love is the Message, The Message is Death."
Remembering Frayda Feldman, James Wagner, and Melodee Strong — This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.
NYC Names Bryan Joseph Lee as New Deputy Culture Commissioner — The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside curator and commissioner Diya Vij at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Heikki's Garden of Flowers | archive of pictorial typography — An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.
Why The Met Returned a Roman Bust — Erin Thompson on the convicted dealer behind many museum artifacts, an artist tattoos Arabic calligraphy, Peter Hujar’s contact sheets, and more.
San Francisco Art Book Fair Celebrates 10 Years — Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF returns this July, welcoming 160 independent publishers from around the world.
Former Philly UArts Building to Become Affordable Housing for Artists — The Village of Industry & Art will transform a dormitory in the now-shuttered university into 45 affordable units by fall 2027.
How to Get Canceled in the Art World — Study respondents reacted more negatively toward artists committing sexual assault than murder. Plus, an unexpected pairing with Picasso’s “Guernica.”
By the Force of Flavia Rando's Presence — Once a member of the Gay Liberation Front and Radicalesbians, the pathbreaking queer artist and educator continues to stir the pot.
Europe’s Winter Power Surge Is Biggest Since Energy Crisis — As Europe heads into winter, electricity markets are flashing their strongest warning since the energy crisis.