Blasphemy? This artist sets works of art on fire 🔥
What is new instantly becomes old, a permanent attrition. At least that’s perspective of artist Maaren Baas, who took a blowtorch to Gerrit Rietveld’s iconic...
Category: Arts
Visuals: Faceless portrAits
Atop Adrift Adjacent Afar All photos by Wells Baum People from behind + Story + Favorite place + Faceless...
A high place 🌃
“Outside New York, a high place where with one glance you take in the houses where eight million human beings live.” — Tomas Tranströmer, “Schubertiana”...
Social media companies as old storefronts
If Facebook’s recent newsfeed changes are any sign, social media is in decay. It’s gone from connecting people to Buzzfeed’s linkbait to a nest of...
Open spaces, closed doors
Everything is design. While cubicles emerged as the “action office,” they created an environment antithesis to work. Says Dilbert creator Scott Adams, ‘cubicles are like prisons.’ Cubicles are...
The value of making up stuff
Art is what we do with our extra time. It is more leisure than life. “Art is everything you don’t have to do,” as Brian Eno...
Why everyone should blog
Everyone should blog. You do not have to publish 500 words a day. You do not even need to post at all. In fact, writing...
When will digital art get its due?
Digital art is easier to create. Photoshop, Prisma filters — anyone can be an artist by throwing a filter on an image. People associate handwork...