Witty Illustrations Capture the Pitfalls and Contradictions of Contemporary Life

Freelance illustrator Elia Colombo — also known as Gebe — is a gifted artist with a nonconformist perspective, crafting witty and thought-provoking snapshots of our contemporary lives and preoccupations. He’s particularly interested in the effects of schooling on personality and social media on self-perception, and those are just two of the themes that occur and […]

Evocative Photos of Contemporary New York, Shot on a Vintage Camera

Polish photographer Norbert Krzysztof Wojtysiak recently fulfilled a lifelong ambition: he took his vintage Rolleicord medium-format camera to New York City, and took photos of the people and places he saw. “In every trip between skyscrapers and another McDonald’s you can meet an interesting person,” he writes, and these images are a rich, textured mixture […]

“Art Frame Design” Mixes Classic Paintings and Contemporary Photography

Some of the most iconic works of visual art are finding themselves in decidedly contemporary surroundings via “Art Frame Design,”a clever new Instagram account that came to our attention on Bored Panda. The gimmick, cooked up by “Michael T.” of the webzine Milkshake, is the use of modern fashion photographs as “frames” for classical paintings […]

Google creates an online exhibit for contemporary art

Some artists actually like it when you say “my four-year-old could do that,” because it means you’ve a) questioned whether a work is art, and b) wondered why or why not. I just learned that from Google Arts & Culture’s brand new Contemporary Art digital collection, packed full of information on the notoriously opaque subject. […]

How a Decrepit Grain Silo Became South Africa’s Mind-Blowing Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Architect Mat Cash transformed a facility meant to store 30,000 tons of wheat, maize, and sorghum into a celebration of art instead of agriculture. https://media.wired.com/photos/59c55312cd214f46039bd2c8/master/pass/776_3_HR_ZeitzMOCAA_HeatherwickStudio_Credit_Iwan%20Baan_View%20of%20Zeitz%20MOCAA%20in%20Silo%20Square.jpg Feed: All Latest

Colorful Collages of Art Historical Women in Contemporary Fashion

Blending a talent for fashion and mixed-media, New York-based Puerto Rican artist Edwin Antonio creates collages that outfit women from centuries past in colorful contemporary clothes. “I want to create a color contrast between the garment and particular paintings from the past centuries,” Antonio writes on his website. “It also presents how these pieces would look […]