Do you need to nourish your art-loving soul? Take a peek at my current Feedly “ART” category for some inspiration!
Artwork of the Day from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brain Pickings: (OK, maybe not strictly art, but art-adjacent, and well-illustrated.)
Shorpy Historic Picture Archive
Messy Nessy Chic (more culture than art, but very inspiring)
No longer in the reader, but were at one point…
Design Milk
From ‘The Children’s Encyclopedia’ published by Arthur Mee. Date and artist unknown.
It’s amazing how many creative minds have taken Jane Austen’s brilliant Regency-era novels and re-imagined them on film. Below is an ever-increasing list of period adaptations, modern reworkings, and films about Jane herself and “Janeite” culture, ranked by my own arbitrary criteria. Northanger Abbey The novel was written circa 1798-99, although it was finally published…
I absolutely love what Jose Romussi does to vintage photographs of dancers… string art and embroidery taken to a whole new level. Related articles Inspiration: Essential Instagram Accounts about Art, Photography, & Creativity Blogs I Read about Art Tuesdays with TED: Sir Ken Robinson, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” The face of the giant | Wallace…
I probably shouldn’t admit that I first learned about Stephen Shore on Pinterest. I became kind of obsessed with the picture above. I feel like I’ve been in this motel room before, and yet I wish I could buy every object in this room. Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a NYC-born, self-taught photographer who…