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kottke.org posts about art

Photomosaic version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The image is made up of over 210,000 individual photographs.

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Scrollbar art by Jan Robert Leegte.

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Delettering the public space. “In a remarkable display of cooperation for the sake of art, every store on a popular shopping street in Vienna allowed their signage to be masked in yellow fluorescent foil.”

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How Danny Gregory makes those nifty watercolors that illustrate The Morning News. “Roz, the color theory teacher, warned against it, but I laid down a blue underpainting!”

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How to make a mosaic from post-it notes.

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Photographer Clayton James Cubitt interviews Tom Carden about their Metropop Denim collaboration. “I don’t think the work ever belongs to the computer, any more than a photograph belongs to a camera. The computer is a tool — there wouldn’t be any artwork if I didn’t tell the computer exactly what to do — it just works a hell of a lot faster than I do!”

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Nicole Kidman is set to star in a biopic about Diane Arbus.

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Da Vinci scholar may have found a long lost Da Vinci fresco.

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Eyebeam is currently accepting proposals for their fall/winter Artist in Residence program. If you get in, I will be within heckling distance of your workspace.

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The art of camouflage.

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Entries in the first annual Art of Science Competition.

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Drawing Restraint 9 is the first collaboration by super-couple Matthew Barney and Bjork.

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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NOW THEN online exhibit. “What did professional comic artists draw like when they were 12 years old”?

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Unknown painting by Edvard Munch found behind another canvas.

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Chen Shaofeng paints his subjects while they paint him. The results are hung side-by-side in his show.

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