A painting by figurative painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-77) bought at Michigan estate sale last year for $30 has sold at auction for $1,352,600. The final price exceeded the high pre-sale…

As we were in Oxford on Sunday we checked out the new Mike Nelson exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. It includes a new version of Triple Bluff Canyon (above), an installation inspired by Robert…

Und Gott sprach: “Geh hin, verbreite Irrsinn und was Nettes deiner Wahl.” Und so ging er hin und es war Irrsinn und etwas ausgesprochen Nettes, das er verbreitete. Und die...

Yes, I totally did not draw an ogre.

A beautiful kimono can be surprisingly difficult to read. We notice its colors, recognize a few flowers, perhaps admire the gold catching the light. The work behind these details is much easier to…

An abridged version of Sub·Object, made with AI tools

The Apparition by John Donne When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead And that thou think’st thee free From all solicitation from me, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, And thee, feign’d vestal,…

Gothic horror once belonged to crumbling castles and decaying mansions. Then it followed Americans into the suburbs, where picture windows, finished basements, and attached garages offered new places…

@lordmarucoatl Hahaha I've been wanting to do this animatic specifically 🤣 #dannyphantom #nicktoons #familyguy #animatic #artistsoftiktok ♬ original sound - Lord Maru

@lordmarucoatl Wanted to do another quick animatic #artistsoftiktok #dannyphantom #nicktoons #animatic #familyguy ♬ original sound - Lord Maru

I stumbled upon this proposal for 996-998 Avenue Road after Chris Spoke stumbled upon it. It immediately stood out to me because it’s a site we looked at when it was for sale, and because…

In December 2013, a man was struck by exciting news: Bitcoin was priced at $660. He knew that was enough to buy the pure gold needed to have a coin forged. The coin would weigh approximately 15…

You can’t predict if a post, book, or any sort of creation will be a hit. Once you have one, the temptation is trying to replicate it. Same post format. Same book outline. Same type of visuals. That…

Back in the early days of twoprops.net, I used the then-nascent “AI” programs to design an illustration of for my alter ego Infrastructure Man. I soon changed my mind about the role and viability of…

My favorite pieces of writing advice, from Zinsser, Lamott, Patchett, Dillard, Caro, Min Jin Lee and others, plus a few of my own.

It looked far higher from up here. That was the thought running through Josh’s head as he stood astride his black-and-turquoise mountain bike, at the top of the footbridge that served as a launch…

I must interrupt my regularly scheduled programming to bring you what must be the most inspired piece of art I’ve seen in a long time. Bullet Time! by Eddie Alcazar is remarkable. It is completely…

Photographer Lucinda Douglas-Menzies has published a limited edition monograph of her portraits taken between 1978 and 2025, including some distinguished cultural luminaries alongside Spitalfields…

So, historians observe, an age Hath older ages on its page; And these have older worlds within ’em, And so proceed ad infinitum. And we shall be the ancients, too, To future eyes that look us…

I was unduly proud of this bit of nonsense. A woebegone Twitterer read the following, and cried out that he did not understand anything the youngsters said: In reply, after consulting with Humpty…

«Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine, but the taste turns bitter [...]

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A first sketch of the dock scene. Dock outlines are in brown, track roadbed is black, outer bound of the lake is blue. I've started to work out some ideas for the scenery now that I think the track…

Do you dislike AI art? And are you disappointed with the search engine results you see when you search for photographs and artworks? If so, this is the video for you. In this narrated video essay,…

It's been a while since I talked about public art , but since it's an important topic about what makes cities both distinct and livable, I wanted to revisit it: but this time with an emphasis not on…

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 Guided tour by Lisa Deml through the group exhibition AFTER MEMORY – Echoes in the Future Perfect Tense at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin. Exhibition period: 11.07. – 11.10.2026 “The ways…

Love and Ruination: An Engaging Tale of Two Clashical Christian Schools: Chapter Four Avery’s first several weeks at Riverfront just flew by, making a whooshing sound as they went. His first week…

...Hello!! I've done it again. I've been busy in my craft room, but not making cards. I've been working in my art journals, and I tend not to post them! Anyhoo. It's time for our new challenge at The…

Independent ships rely on the six great institutions in order to operate, so all captains pledge to an agreed set of terms, sworn by each new crewmember upon boarding. The ship’s continued…

Ox Patrick T. Reardon Hambone turns like an ox plowing, his shoulder heavier than all the planets, his head full of Cosmos, skin furrow of blue sky, eye light as if achafed, as if afevered, as if…

In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. In a dozen books and around…

I might share a couple of my opinions with you; but I'm not going to share them because I think they're smart, I'm going to share them with you because they rhyme... I ain't traveling around trying…

  Copy + Paste + Steal - a documentary on artists’ plight and copyright has been nominated for an International Emmy Award.   Incredibly happy to hear that Copy + Paste + Steal, a…

i've already talked about what's the easiest thing to animate. it's fish, if you were curious. read the article to learn more! ;) so, you're probably wondering, what's the opposite? what's the…

Highland Park Presbyterian (now DEVO) Church by James H. Johnson (1955) I headed out to the West Highland neighborhood of Denver to see a great example of ecclesiastical modern architecture. Johnson…

the usage of the bay window as pov transition is so cinematic like a curtain change and it also like really illuminates the mixing of reality and illustration as magic and the traumatic narrative…

Before the Verdict A postulated reflection: If our histories shape what we see, what might change when we question our first judgment?We meet one world through different eyes,And each declares the…

Paintings of exhausted women (and some men)

I went out with a fellow empty-nesting friend the other day and she commented that she had themed her months so far; September was concerts, and October was friends. That's always a highly successful…

François Ghebaly, Los Angeles Patrick Jackson did not make the cobwebs that, on my visit to his show, tangled around the scaffolding supporting his billboard sculpture Memorial, 2026, but he…

Bernard Leach initially dominated postwar British ceramics with rustic brown pots. Rie, an emigre from Germany, offered a refined, modernist alternative. When Hans Coper turned up on Rie’s doorstep…

Magritte was no ordinary modernist, nor for that matter, an ordinary surrealist. Uninterested in surrealism’s dream culture (think Dali) he was attracted to the slippery connection between words and…

When Alfred Music invited me earlier this year to write a collection of space-inspired piano pieces for elementary students, I said yes right away. The very next thing I did was open Notion — my…

Did live visuals for a concert in a large church

Letters from the turn of a century, 2 Next in my series of three bits of Art Nouveau lettering is Albert House, a building in Manchester’s Bloom Street that once housed offices, although for what…

This is how Archura met Maralina, a human operator, an AI supplement, a proxy. AI agents monitored and managed the interactions of these human helpers, and would readily flip them to another user, or…

トニー・トロメイは、テーブルの向こうの壁に掛けられた絵を眺めていた。 父がこの部屋のために選んだ絵だった。もっとも父自身は、それが実際にここへ掛けられたところを見ることはなかった。 北欧の画家、クロード・ハルヴァティによる大作、《Kai sy, teknon》。 その絵を見るたび、トニー・トロメイは、自分が父について本当はどれほど何も知らなかったのかを考えた。…

We were invited to play a game we did not understand but rich and famous people played it all the time so we thought it’d be okay. The object was to find our way out of a large house with many…