New Mexico State Fair ribbon quilt now on display in Smithsonian
Ribbons are a big deal. Carol Johnson has won hundreds and hundreds of them over the past 43 years. “My father was an alcoholic and I heard all the time,…
The OLDEST SURVIVING Animated Feature Film | The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Long before Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, director Lotte Reiniger created a breathtaking silhouette-animated fantasy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. In this video, we explore the…
What the Art World Doesn’t Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
It’s worth considering that perhaps Kanye, and also Kusama, might somehow be off-limits from criticism because of their well-publicized mental illnesses. It’s certainly been enough to have put an asterisk…
Security guards talk about art
at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Inside the Life of a Graphic Designer in Marseille, Southern France
In the first episode of My City, My Backyard, graphic designer and illustrator Guillaume Denaud opens the door to his everyday life in Marseille, introducing us to the places and…
The Artist in the Office
by Summer Pierre
LA Public Library: The World’s Largest Pop-Up Book
With original art created by Los Angeles artist and printmaker Daniel González and paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart, this ambitious feat of scale and storytelling constructed in the Rotunda of…
Craft in America: JEWELRY
JEWELRY features classic jeweler Tom Herman; Harriete Estel Berman who creates jewelry with recycled materials; the coeditors of Ornament Magazine; the legacy of modernist jeweler Art Smith; nature-inspired artist Gabrielle…
BBC Archive: 1976: DAVID HOCKNEY
Hockney has written a personal account of his own work, entitled Hockney on Hockney. Autobiographical in tone - with a wealth of archival material provided by his mother - it…
This Artist Says Ambition Is a Trap
For Jennifer Owen, a Maui potter and ceramics teacher, a meaningful life has taken shape through clay. Not through scale. Not through constant growth. Not through the pressure to turn…