Digital Garden

I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a handful of essays read by about fifty people). But then, around the time Rebecka got up on her legs and learned to talk, I found a voice and picked up pace.

In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances

A look at how this distinct art form encourages artistic individuality in both storytelling and style

“The self-renewing man … looks forward to an endless and unpredictable dialogue between his potentialities an the claims of life – not only the claims he encounters but the claims he invents.…

For most of my life, my art-making, whether it was drawing, writing or making comics, felt painful and fraught. But now – most of the time – creative practice is something that steadies me, something I rely on to think and feel my way through the world. It’s a source of deep joy. I’m going to share some ideas with you today that have helped me make that shift.

This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes

At the Simon & Schuster centennial, author Fredrik Backman discusses the highs and lows of being an author, from attempting to get along with the voices in your brain, to the hidden joys of jet lag. Learn more about Fredrik's book, THE WINNERS: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Winners/Fredrik-Backman/Beartown-Series/9781982112806 Celebrate our 100th anniversary with us: https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/simon-and-schuster-100th-anniversary Watch more author highlights ►►https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-71r3OWGsTGaKXZIrM2GHRsLfdGkDU5I&si=keFF0VaGUrw37v1U

Gallery to display first Louise Jopling work acquired for nation as part of new exhibition exploring women artists in British history

Numbers of specialist makers are dwindling but one charity plans to save this vital part of our cultural heritage

Why my eclipse was a disappointment.

Driftwood charcoal stop motion animations by David BegleyDavid Begley artist and writer

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new

A killer himself, Caravaggio died at 38 – desperate, disfigured and on the run from the Knights of St John. His greatest works – with which he bargained for his life – cast light on one of art’s darkest mysteries

At the Norwegian event, creators from Europe’s only Indigenous nation used kettles, synthpop and recordings of salmon to create music that drew on their often threatened traditions

Ways to evaluate your tools and ways of doing things.

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Richard Serra, from the "Place" episode in Season 1 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series."Place" premiered in September 2001 on PBS.The segment follows Richard Serra as he guides the viewer through several massive installations he has done in New York, San Francisco, and Bilbao, Spain. Having worked with metal for the past forty years, Serra creates sculptures shape and stretch steel like rubber, carving intimate moments out of public spaces.Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/richard-serraCREDITSCreated by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Executive Producer: Susan Dowling. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Production Coordinator: Laura Recht. Researcher: Quinn Latimer & Wesley Miller. Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Donna Marino. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Additional Photography: John Chater, Ken Kobland, & Don Lenzer. Sound: Gautam K. Choudhury, Ray Day, Doug Dunderdale, Aldo Ferraris Hierro, Chris Kellett, Ramon Larrabaster, Juan A. Torres, Bill Wander. Assistant Camera: Matthew Gordon, Brian Hwang, Paul Marbury, Glen Piegari, Enrique Puig, & Kipjaz Savoie. Gaffer/Grip: Ned Hallick, Paco Mayo, & Pedro Villalon. Location Manager: Asier Bilbao; Michelle Fernandez Echebarre; & Hilda Frontanes-Suarez, Tropical Visions. Production Assistant: Steve Carrillo, Graham Gangi, Brent Hamilton, Gabriel Monts, Eric Pfriender, Orlando A. Rivera, & Scott Stevens. Animation Stand Photographer: Marcos Levy & City Lights. Assistant Avid Editor: Heather Burak & Matt Prinzig. Assistant to the Director: Rachel Connolly.Full credits available at https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s1/placeMajor underwriting for Season 1 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by Robert Lehman Foundation, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Allen Foundation for the Arts, The Broad Art Foundation, The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Bagley Wright Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and The Foundation-to-Life.#RichardSerra #Place #Art21

This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.

As Chief Photographer of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in the 1920's-1930's, George Hoyningen-Huene photographed fashion from Chanel, Lanvin, Vionnet, Schiaparelli, Lelong and Balenciaga among others.

Five decades ago, a fan picked up a set of the director’s meticulous storyboards for just $50 – including the lost Spellbound dream sequence by Salvador Dalí in which Ingrid Bergman turns into ants

A new book collects depictions of the citrus fruits in art throughout history

Beyond traditional journaling, Day One provides a creative way to document and organize the many different aspects of your life.

We chat with Katie Buckley, the artist who created the opening titles, about her arduous process from typography to gold leaf to animation.

Has Jeff Koons’ latest high-profile stunt just proved that space is the new frontier for art?

The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats

Artist Janice Lowry's illustrated diaries record her history—and ours