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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 found this article about airport designs and thought it was really interesting. I always thought that having to go through Duty Free shopping after security to get to the gates was a very smart idea as it forces passengers to walk past shops with candy, travel essentials, beauty products Read more…

Plugging another Instagram account! The COVID Art Musuem (@covidartmuseum) is an account which features art created during this pandemic. Many of the featured pieces are clear products of their time. It’s interesting seeing how this time has drained some creatively, yet pushed others to be more creative and inspired than Read more…

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/30/us/2019-year-in-graphics.html#g-yearend-space%20and%20technology As the year is almost over, the NYT decided to look back on the year 2019 in visual graphics. As always the use of visual media makes these stories more digestible, especially when it is a whole year in review. I think it’s a good way to keep track Read more…

This news is a bit old, but on July 4th 80 artists participated in the Art Intvention known as “In Plain Site.” Several Spanish as “Nosotras te vemos,” “modeerf,” and “todo por uno sueno” were written in the sky over 80 different sites including detention centers, immigration courts, and former Read more…