[ad_1] After recently searching for good art reference websites, I was a little taken aback that Tumblr is still a thing, as it apparently still gets around 140 million monthly active users. Back in the early 2010s, these pages were a wealth of creative inspiration, and now it seems they’re still alive, after all, the
[ad_1] Rossana Castellino is an Italian illustrator and jewellery maker whose charming mixed-media artworks are mainly crafted using pencils and pastels. Her creations move between nature and fantasy, often focusing on quiet introspective atmospheres. Below, she tells us about five examples of her work. If you’re inspired, check out our guide to the best pastel
[ad_1] The first electronic general-purpose computer, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), was built at the University of Pennsylvania between 1941 and 1946. It was designed to calculate the range of heavy artillery for the US army. The size of a couple of rooms, it had thousands of components and millions of hand-soldered connections.
[ad_1] I’ve got to come clean. A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the Northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia for an art show. And honestly, I’d never heard of it. On my return, I took a deep breath and prepared to explain to friends where I’d been. But then last week Catherine,
[ad_1] MEDINA, Ohio — Access the Arts is offering two summer arts camps for children and teens next month, giving participants a chance to showcase their work during the annual Strawberry Arts Fest in Medina Square. The camps, scheduled for June 24-26, will focus on a range of creative activities, including music, dance, visual arts,
[ad_1] Health insurer, Bupa, has launched a campaign called ‘Express Your Health’ alongside new research showing that nearly half of adults surveyed across three countries do not spend any time on creative activities. The campaign, which is running globally, including in Hong Kong, encourages people to share health experiences through creative expression. It coincides with
[ad_1] Metalwork also shone at Pace’s booth. Lynda Benglis’s brass sculpture Fanfaronade (1979) sold for USD 400,000, while Sam Gilliam’s homage painting Heroines, Beyoncé, Serena and Althea (2020) achieved USD 1.1 million. Further Pace sales included Elmgreen & Dragset’s figurative sculpture Sunshine (2025) for USD 320,000, two stainless steel clock works from Alicja Kwade’s ‘In-Between’
[ad_1] When Suumit Arora set out to decorate his home, he turned to generative AI to create artwork that was personal and affordable. What began as a design experiment quickly revealed a larger gap: while digital and AI-generated art was growing, there were few accessible marketplaces connecting such work to buyers, especially people who couldn’t
[ad_1] Arts Council England has introduced “digital arts” as a new discipline to enable it to better track the scale of investment in this area and support future policy and funding decisions. Digital arts will become the grantmaker’s tenth supported art form discipline and is the first to be introduced in more than 20 years.
[ad_1] At this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, LACMA hosted the second annual Digital Art Conversations at the Miami Beach EDITION, bringing together artists, curators, institutional leaders, creators, and collectors for an afternoon of dialogue around the past, present, and future of digital art. Organized by LACMA’s Digital Leaders (LDL)—the first-of-its-kind strategic committee formed to