Art

A selection of enticing yet disquieting paintings by French artist Diane Dal-pra (previously featured here). Currently on display with Massimo de Carlo at Mostyn gallery in Wales, Dal-pra’s latest exhibition explores the duality of possessions and how the objects we own can both consume and comfort us. While objects may provide a sense of reassurance, their permanence can also lead …

 Art Illustration #drawing #ink #stippling #Xavier Casalta August 22, 2023 Kate Mothes “Marcus Aurelius” (2021-22), stippled black ink, 140 x 100 centimeters. All images © Xavier Casalta, shared with permission It took Xavier Casalta a phenomenal 2,300 hours over the course of 15 months to complete his largest work to date. Featuring numerous blooms surrounding a marble bust of …

“A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an expansive quality, whether that expansion is a physical manifestation, a spiritual one, or an expression of consciousness,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in the introduction of The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter (2023, Brandeis University Press). The weight that Pludwinski confers upon Hebrew letters …

Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr, “submarine” (all images courtesy Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr) Code poetry is built on a simple premise: it is a single text that reads as poetry and executes as code. The new collection ./code –– poetry, published by Broken Sleep Books, brings a programmer and poet together in collaboration, adding proficiency and nuance to both …

A federal judge has upheld a decision by the United States Copyright Office to reject a copyright application for an artwork created by artificial intelligence in a ruling that could have significant ramifications in the generative art space. The ruling, delivered by District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell, found that Stephen Thaler’s copyright registration request for a visual artwork “autonomously …

Jon Henry, “Untitled #61, Omaha, NE” (2020) (© Jon Henry; image courtesy the artist) On Florida’s Atlantic coast, photographer Jon Henry’s Stranger Fruit (2014–2021) series was scheduled to grace the walls of Daytona State College’s Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP) from January 11 through April 15 this year. Instead, the gallery space sat empty and the works in the show — nearly …

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a ??? Over the past week, a high-resolution image of two young orbiting stars captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has grabbed the attention of astronomical enthusiasts and punctuation aficionados alike for what appears to look like a galactic question mark. The photo, originally taken in May and released in late June, …

One of the shiniest redeeming qualities of NFTs — the requirement that artists receive payment every time a work is sold, whether for the second time or the hundredth time — is disappearing on OpenSea. The second-largest NFT trading platform announced on Thursday, August 17 that it is phasing out artist royalties, mandatory commissions that provided creators with a paycheck …

Liz Flores, “Tell Me More” We’re beyond excited to announce our latest limited-edition print collaboration with Chicago-based artist Liz Flores (previously). “Tell Me More” features one of Flores’ signature color-blocked figures in warm shades of pink and neutral tones. Lounging on a patterned rug with delicate tassels lining the perimeter, the woman lets her long braids drape over her body …

 Photography Science #James Webb Space Telescope #NASA #space #stars August 21, 2023 Grace Ebert Image courtesy of ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow (University College London), N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson (Cardiff University) More than a year after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope brought us images of the Southern Ring Nebula, the world’s most powerful observer captured the remains of …