The Best Articles in Art
The most useful articles and videos in Art from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Art Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Art by Refind users in 2024 so far.
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An AI artist explains his workflow
How it works — and why it takes a surprisingly long time to make something good.Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://...
AI and Image Generation (Everything is a Remix Part 4)
#ai #aiart #imagegen The Age of AI has arrived and its first flashpoint is art. AI is revolutionizing how we create, view, and experience art, while sparking...
Why is this painting of a black square famous?
Discover the symbolism of Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square,” and how it pushed the boundaries of what art is and what it can be.--In 1915, an exhibition of r...
Art Critic Slams Hirst
Art critic, Robert Hughes slams artist Damien Hirst in excerpts from a hard to find documentary not on YouTube. Video includes choice arguments in a newspape...
WHAT ON EARTH
A Golden LA Production Written and Directed by : Jimmy Marble Zizi: Suzanna Son Executive Producer: Matthew Marquis Head of Production: Arwa Ibrahim Producer:…
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The Woman Who Theorized Color: An Introduction to Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)
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What is Generative Art?
An artwork may be generative in some ways and not in others. A piece could have generative aspects even if the artist didn’t have that intention. There are ways in which a painting could be considered…
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How to change the course of human history
Art work by Banksy (title unknown). Source: Flickr For centuries, we have been telling ourselves a simple story about the origins of social inequality. For most of their history, humans lived in tiny…
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A Mathematician On Creativity, Art, Logic and Language
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought.
Sougwen Chung: Finding Inspiration In AI
The AI art that Sougwen Chung makes is very different from the images spit out by popular image-generation tools.
A Point of View: The strangely enduring power of kitsch
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch, but time and again it is drawn back to its lure, says Roger Scruton.
‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism
How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community
Art journalism
This photograph is the kind of photograph you’d throw away. If you’re working with a digital camera, you would immediately delete it. It’s a disaster. Trash it and move on. There’s a big metal bar in…
Short Articles
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Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators
As AI developers indiscriminately suck up online content to train their models, artists are seeking ways to fight back.
Artists have forgotten how to draw
Pain is at the heart of a traditional education
«a curriculum that marries hard-won skill with creative expression is the ideal to strive for.»
Taste
On subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving design industry terms like taste undefined.
The perfect drawing tool
What pen and pencil is best for sketching? Learn how the personality of pencils, pens, and brushes can influence your art and your creative growth. This is what you need to get started with drawing…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Art.
The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.
Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History
A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here's how investigators unraveled the incredible scam
Why Activism Leads to So Much Bad Writing
Art and politics have very different agendas.
On the Aesthetic Turn
The critical tide is turning, once again. The professional critics—and not just the old, curmudgeonly ones—are fed up with moralizing, and they are willing to […]
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