Art
A Conceptual Artist Designs Tactile Comic Books for Blind Readers
While traveling through Finland, artist Ilan Manouach came up with an idea for a graphic novel, but unlike traditional graphic novels this one would be designed for blind readers.
Carey Dunne
In Brief
Hunt for Colors with Pantone’s New Eyedropper App
Pantone has just released a new app, and using it feels a bit like an Easter Egg hunt for artists and designers.
In Brief
NRA Loses One as Apple Replaces Revolver Emoji with Squirt Gun
Come fall, Apple will pry the gun emoji from your cold, texting hands.
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19th-Century Peepshows Offer 3D Glimpses of the Past
Long before cardboard VR viewers, there were paper peepshows: pocket-sized stage sets with illustrated backdrops and paper cut-out scenes, which expand like accordion books to create an illusion of depth when you peer through eyeholes.
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More Than 40 Artists and Designers Accuse Zara of Plagiarism
A week ago, Los Angeles-based artist Tuesday Bassen posted a photo on Instagram contrasting her original designs for pins and patches with alleged ripoffs sold by Zara, the international clothing brand.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Initiative to Deepen Collection of African American Art
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.
Art
Color-Changing Shirts Visualize Polluted Air
By now, we all know the grim health risks posed by air pollution, but as a reminder, they include lung damage, diabetes, skin problems, mental health problems, and heart disease.
Art
From Botticelli to Basquiat, Art History Goes Emoji
Some might find the translation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear” into a smiling cartoon head spurting blood a little sacrilege, or just tacky, but it was only a matter of time before the emoji-fication of art history took it there.
Art
A Photographer Retraces His Grandfather’s 1,300-Mile Escape from a Soviet Prison Camp
In 1945, the final year of World War II, Anton Iwanowski and his brother Wiktor escaped from a Soviet gulag in a stolen rowboat.
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Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.
Art
The Men Who Dress Like Sex Dolls
Several years ago, while doing research for a photography project on hyperrealistic sex dolls, artist Daniel Handal learned about female maskers: a fetish community of men who dress up as living dolls, wearing latex bodysuits and masks.
Art
A Photojournalist's Previously Unpublished Images of Fidel Castro's Cuba in the 1960s
“What would your State Department say if they knew you had been kept incommunicado in the Sierra Maestra with [me] for three days?” Fidel Castro asked Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist, during a rare, smoke-filled seven-day interview in 1965.