Where the 1960s “psychedelic” look came from
When you picture hippies, you probably picture bell bottoms, long hair, and LSD. You might also think of a very specific graphic design and illustration style, seen on concert posters…
Why this chair is on so many album covers
The golden age of album cover design doesn’t have a specific start and end date, but many regard the late 1960s to 1970s as one of the field's most exciting…
Art history and protest
Why this painting?
Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s a Museum
Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s “Aristotle with a Bust of Homer” (1653). Along the way, she tells her favorite story of visiting…
The Poet of the Information Desk
Robyn Schiff returns to The Met to read from her poem, “Information Desk: An Epic” in which she recounts what it was like to work at the Museum while establishing…
Victorian puzzle purse
What you need: A square paper. Mine is 21 x 21cm cut from a A4 paper. Use a thicker paper if you are going to be using watercolours as you’re…
Download 222 Belle Époque Art Posters: An Online Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918)
The period between the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, best known by its French name La Belle Époque
Art Philosophy
fungkiigrrl sums up how I feel about making art online
Sukeban with Roses
How to draw ‘Sukeban with Roses ’ artwork. I drew this art using ballpoint pen, template ruler(blue stencil) , and brushes.