The Verge
NFTs, explained
16+ min · · Shared by 1555, including Chris Skinner, Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, Mark Anderson, Frank Gruber, Dave McClure, CyberCodeTwins, Tom Muller, BrendanEich, LARRY ELKAN, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Michael (मुकेश), Scott Berkun, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Dave Kellogg, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Real Marsha Wright®, 𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗, Stig Ørskov, Paul Roetzer, Helen Yu
The Atlantic
NFTs Are an Art Project Gone Awry
8 min · · When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again. · Shared by 1200, including Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, anildash.com, Mike Monteiro, cisgendered male, Jer Thorp, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, William Gibson, Rand Fishkin, Tom Muller, Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🥀🏳️🌈, Mathew Ingram, TonyParisi.eth, Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, LARRY ELKAN, Rhizome, Kyle McDonald, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Rinaldi, Hiroko Tabuchi
Creative Bloq
Free online resources for artists and designers stuck at home
4 min · · Drawing lessons, software, books and more – the creative community continues to offer amazing support amid virus outbreak. · Shared by 417, including Hồng Nam Phạm, Neil Hart 💙, Jonathan Kogan, Rick Powell, Tom Connor, Katja Evertz, Ceferino Díaz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Kevin Roberts, Beate Jordaan
The New York Times
Who Is the Bad Art Friend?
20+ min · · Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it’s your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson. · Shared by 353, including BenYT, Anne Helen Petersen, Kara Swisher, Agnes Callard, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Tara Parker-Pope, corey robin, Helen De Cruz, Jessica Valenti, Mathew Ingram, Charles Duhigg, Chris O'Brien, S. Mitra Kalita, Paddy Johnson, Matt Zoller Seitz, Hrag, Millie Tran, not non-this is not non-aaron, David V. Johnson, Geraldine @everywhereist@mastodon.social
otherlife.co
The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon
3 min · · How to build a pressure-cooker Lebenswelt. · Shared by 321, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.
6 min · · “I won, and I didn’t break any rules,” the artwork’s creator says. · Shared by 242, including Jordi Serrano, Nicolas Babin, Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦, Felix M, Ajit Pai, Marcus Borba, Mathew Ingram, Reid Hoffman, Martin Ford, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Deborah Blum, Iain Brown, PhD, Kevin Roose, Benedict Evans, Stanford HAI, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ben Jones, Rick Powell, Gerd Leonhard, Helen De Cruz
Smithsonian Magazine
This Artist Spent Two Years Covering His Mansion in Doodles
3 min · · Sam Cox—also known as Mr. Doodle—has been dreaming about the project since he was 18 · Shared by 189, including Rick Powell
newcriterion.com
Culture as counterculture by Adam Kirsch
14+ min · · Adam Kirsch on changes in the cultural climate. · Shared by 172, including Jane, Andy West, maxadorno, Rick Powell
My Modern Met
The Rijksmuseum Has Digitized 709,000 Artworks and Made Them Available for Free Online
2 min · · The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has made 709,000 images of legendary artwork available for free. · Shared by 159, including Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Tom D'Amico, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, rogerverhoeven, Yves Mulkers, Surface Magazine, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
Aeon+Psyche
If all we do is argue about politics, maybe the arts can help
13+ min · · Good art, laced with irony, ambiguity and suspense, is not obviously political. That’s what makes it politically interesting · Shared by 155, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Anita Leirfall
BBC News (World)
The Nigerian AI artist reimagining a stylish old age
5 min · · Malik Afegbua's images of elderly models have blown up on Instagram, but they are not what they seem. · Shared by 148, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Skinner, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Iain Brown, PhD
ARTnews
History’s Painter: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh’s “Gerhard Richter”
11+ min · · In a long-awaited monograph, art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh reckons with the work of Gerhard Richter. · Shared by 139, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
Sam Gilliam ‘Took a Step Most People Didn’t Understand Was Possible’
7 min · · The artists Melvin Edwards and Rashid Johnson reflect on the legacy of their friend, just days after he died at age 88. · Shared by 134, including The Indian Express, Rick Powell
The New York Review of Books
Art in Isolation: The Delicate Paintings of Edo Japan
5 min · · “Painting Edo,” the ambitious jewel of an exhibition currently on view for no one at the Harvard Art Museum, is perhaps arguably experiencing its most historically authentic moment in the strangeness… · Shared by 128, including Rick Powell, Jane
The American Scholar
Obscura No More
13+ min · · How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center · Shared by 126, including Rick Powell
The New Yorker
How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism
6 min · · Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient. · Shared by 124, including Gabriele, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Jane, Rick Powell, Ceferino Díaz