Category Archives: Art

Australia Needs Your Help

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Australi-Aid has partnered with over 40 incredible artists to create a beautiful collection of postcards to support wildfire recovery. You can support the effort by purchasing some of the wonderful original artwork on their website. They have selected two organizations … Continue reading →

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Wild Horses

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Chances are if you have ever visited Sweden you came home with at least one souvenir Dala wooden horse. When American street artist Shai Dahan moved to Sweden a few years ago to live and work, he decided that the … Continue reading →

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The Art of Travel Posters

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

The digital marketing agency, lacuna 5, has teamed up with artsupplies.co.uk to create a series of vintage-style travel posters inspired by famous artists from around the world. Before designing the posters they posed the question: “what would travel posters look … Continue reading →

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Book Nook

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Never Forget

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

A temporary holocaust monument titled Levenslicht (Lifelight)  created by artist Daan Roosegaarde lights up Rotterdam with 104,000 luminescent memorial stones that represent the 104,000 Dutch holocaust victims of the Nazis during WWII.  The monument, which recalls the Jewish custom of … Continue reading →

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Because the Night

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Todd Alcott  

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This Is The Sign You Have Been Looking For

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Word on the street Philadelphia:  

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Dracula 2020

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

To hype the new version of  Bram Stoker’s Dracula on BBC and Netflix , the team at BBC Creative has  designed some impressive billboards. The ads, which are currently up in London and Birmingham, use a brilliant combination of stakes … Continue reading →

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The end is silence

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Grant Snider

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Sometimes in Winter

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Brian D. Butler

Gabriele Münter (Berlin, 1877 – 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the … Continue reading →

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