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Influenced by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the film Vertigo, Gregory Crewdson’s portraits of middle America have a dreamy, cinematic quality

An artist catalog is physical documentation of your work at a specific moment in time, and all artists should use them. Include these items:

Using old insurance fire maps, researchers have enabled a machine-learning system to recreate 3D models of neighborhoods that no longer exist. Not only could the technique lead to VR tours of the 'hoods, but it could help study the economic impact of urbanization.

Will art sell when it's focused on the artist’s personal narrative? I discuss this question with Sara Lee Hughes, how she focuses on the long game, how she keeps her ideas, and the discipline she has to balance motherhood with her studio practice.

7 personal recommendations for art-related fiction plus 28 that others have added to the list. Vote and add yours!

International contemporary as well as late 19th century painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and video works.

Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt’s new solo exhibition offers up monochrome minimalism at its most striking

Beauty and pain coincided for Tajette O’Halloran when she came of age in northern NSW. As an adult she is recreating scenes from her adolescence

Bronze of jailed Wikileaks founder fighting extradition to the US flanked by figures of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning

Powder produced by ice sheets could be used to help tackle climate crisis when spread on farm fields

"As usual I take more time filling up space with crazy drawings."

Gwen John was very much her own woman and followed her own artistic instincts, producing small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that resonate.

A sculpture dedicated to women stands on a hillside near the village of Olympos, home to one of the few matriarchal societies in Greece that resists tourism and lifestyle standardisation. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

Postwar artists wouldn’t have had a chance without affordable housing or social security, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year’s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa – and shows its vicious exploitation continues

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features works by female artists making statements about the political and social changes shaping the lives of women in some of the world’s most restrictive societies

Over a four-month period, Moroccan-Belgian photographer, Mous Lamrabat, photographed and interviewed diasporic communities from over 25 cultures, ranging from Brazil and India to Morocco and Mexico. On display this month at the Tab Centre in London, these portraits and interviews highlight notions of culture and identity in a world beyond cultural divisions

At the heart of Jennifer Collier’s work is a love of experimentation as she explores what is possible – and...

From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.

Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.

This is a beautifully written biography of an extraordinary woman, who, as the author puts it, “remains at most a footnote in other people’s history.” She was a prominent patient …

Turns out Tim Burton is much more than a film director....

A brief introduction to Cuban artist's books from three publishers, Ediciones Vigía, Ediciones El Fortín, and Cuadernos Papiro. These are some books offered for sale by Downtown Brown Books in our Catalog 15.

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The flow and the ingredients by which an idea becomes an offering — and life practices which call that alchemy forth. The mystery of it all that can only be named and wondered at — and the ordinary mystery that creativity is a human birthright, a way of being rather than doing, that beckons to us all, in everything we do, from crafting something to conversing to the arranging of furniture in a room. This is where Krista goes with the rock star music producer Rick Rubin. It's not a conversation about the creative process of the many great musicians he's worked with — but a conversation that is for and about us all. There are some surprises, too, in his lovely, soothing voice — like the way he finds a metaphor for all of life in pro wrestling. And he leaves the doors of his studio wide open as they speak, so there is a soundtrack of ocean waves.

I read "A Life of One's Own" in my early 20s. Revisiting it via this article makes me wonder how much it went on to subliminally affect my trajectory...!