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Multifarious: Shel Silverstein, Magnets, and Fauvists, or What the Hell is Art?

February 8, 2015

Last month, Vulture ran a piece where eight museum directors of such ivy-league museums as Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, etc. shared their favorite pieces of art. It got me thinking about how we come around to art, and as always, what the hell art is anyway. Obviously, we at WWAC ...

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Multifarious: Art of the Body

January 10, 2015

Multifarious is back in the New Year, and for this one, we decided to go with a theme: art and the female body.

Art & Design

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December 27, 2014

Haunting Women I first saw Carly Janine Mazur’s illustrations in the pages of Nightmare Magazine. She’s a Connecticut based artist who works primarily in oils and acrylic, and her work is definitely on the dark and haunting side. Similarly, Craww’s work features horned figures, birds, and ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Space Art and GIF Technology

December 13, 2014

Welcome back to Multifarious, our weekend arts linkblog. What’s new in our own personal art worlds? What’s new in unusual art? PasteDesign has discovered the best thing. The best thing! There is now a giphoscope! The Giphoscope looks a bit like a haunted rolodex, with a moment from ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Welcome to the Future

December 6, 2014

Famous Avant Garde Painting Discovered…in Stuart Little’s Living Room? Discovery of famous lost pieces of art aren’t completely unknown, but you don’t exactly expect to see them in the house of a CGI mouse voiced by Michael J. Fox. A work by Hungarian avant-garde artist Róbert Berény was ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Praying in a See-Through Church

November 30, 2014

It’s Nice That has a rundown of why and how the New Yorker manages to consistently get such wonderful illustrated covers. From Chris Ware, to Adrian Tomine, those New Yorker covers are killing it, and it’s all thanks to art editor Francoise Mouly and contributor Mina Kaneko. Work ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Apple Strudel vs Art

November 23, 2014

One day, a woman made a fine very apple strudel. She shared that strudel with an artist, who in turn gifted her with a painting. Now, that painting is up at auction and experts estimate it will earn the woman’s daughter somewhere between $15,000 – $20,000. That artist? William Kurelek. ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Beautiful Bizarre

November 15, 2014

If you happen to live in the DFW metroplex or are passing through, you should definitely check out the “Faces of Impressionism” exhibit at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The works are on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. Seeing art close up is a vastly different experience than ...

Comics

Multifarious: But the art of it

November 9, 2014

The rise of curation in popular culture Has the curator supplanted the creator in popular imagination? The Globe and Mail examines the rise of curation as a profession and an art form. The curator’s job has been, among other things, to find the through line. She provides a practical function, ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Art Untranslatable

October 18, 2014

I am sucker for typography and illustration. These illustrations by artist Ellen Frances Sanders depicting untranslatable words combine my favorite things: typography, illustration, and the charming and often frustrating nuance of languages: While you are at it, take a look at her other ...

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Multifarious: Shel Silverstein, Magnets, and Fauvists, or What the Hell is Art?

Multifarious: Art of the Body

Multifarious

Multifarious: Space Art and GIF Technology

Multifarious: Welcome to the Future

Multifarious: Praying in a See-Through Church

Multifarious: Apple Strudel vs Art

Multifarious: Beautiful Bizarre

Multifarious: But the art of it

Multifarious: Art Untranslatable

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