A trend I’ve noticed recently among Gen Z fashion is using (or re-creating) Renaissance/Classicism/any type of traditional, “Louvre-esque” painting as fabric prints for clothing. I’ve attached a similar example below, of tapestry fabric being repurposed into corset tops. It’s fascinating to see how art styles are cycled in and out Read more…
Sharing another visual/street artist I love, Johanna Toruño. She has long used the city streets as her canvas to share messages about Black and Latino solidarity and the working and immigrant class (The Unapologetic Street Series, formerly the Unapologetically Brown Series). Something particularly powerful about her taking to public space Read more…
Last month, I was walking down Walnut (around 36th) and saw two trucks pull up with LED light signs showing huge font with messages related to the upcoming election. I snapped a photo because I thought it might be part of Jenny Holzer’s “Vote Your Future” project, which I’d included Read more…
This is just me being a groupie, but I have been a big fan of the Manchester band The 1975 for a long time, and one of the things they’re best known for is their use of light–especially as glowing rectangles–in their branding and in their set design for shows. Read more…
Recently, two posts on Tiktok and Twitter went viral sharing examples of “Accidental Renaissance” images, wherein a photo features some of the themes/elements of well-known Renaissance paintings like specific light and composition, clothing, focus on one unique face amongst chaos, triangular structures, twisted body positions, etc. Even if some of Read more…
I wanted to share a bit about an artist whose work I admire–I found her on Instagram a few years ago, and it’s been cool to see her journey through college to creating art full-time. I love the details and fairytale/magic themes she brings to her work, and she also Read more…
I came across this TikTok account by accident–Jose Manchado is a photographer based in Spain, but I think he became popular on Tiktok for ‘animating’ static paintings much in the way that we did with puppet warp in Photoshop for our Dada Composites. His animations have since become much more Read more…
The Slow Factory is a foundation working toward securing human rights and environmental justice. Almost a year ago, they launched their One X One program, the first science incubator in fashion, where teams focused on circularity, human-centered design, and regenerative technologies. The board of advisors and the teams are both Read more…
A while back, I read some articles linked in this Instagram post about the rise and fall (and rise?) of translucent technology and products/accessories. Studio Cult is a brand that makes quirky statement jewelry and accessories, much of which is very “internet-trendy” (think a giant bread clip-shaped bag, frozen cursor Read more…
This article by Rachel Wetzler explores the phenomenon that realism becomes popular as an art style in times of economic crisis. While I’d learned about or seen Gustave Courbet’s works, Millet’s The Gleaners, etc., I hadn’t really thought that this tendency to depict un-glamorous labor would be applicable to our Read more…