Tag: art
There’s only one person with the audacity to say that an original, intact Gutenberg Bible is “a baroque illustrated object that was absolutely not to my taste.” That person is …
Argentine artist Marta Minujín is set to open an art installation this year built from books that have been banned around the world. Minujín is a conceptual and performance artist who …
YouTube Channel: AbeBooks.com From the Description: Andy Warhol may have pioneered Pop Art, but he also loved cats like the rest of us. Years before he was famous and decades …
Picture it: you’ve got deadlines to hit. You’ve procrastinated far too long and you’re cramming to submit your article. Maybe you’re just a few crucial sentences away from capping …
If you’re a book lover, you’re going to want one of these posters. Digital artist Nicholas Rougeux has been creating Literary Constellations that map out sentences from classic literature like …
There’s nothing more memorable than traveling the world, seeing the sights of a new land, learning the culture, hearing the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign tongue, and (my favorite) …
YouTube Channel: Random House Kids From the Description: Not every book cover comes to life with string! Watch as artist Dominique Falla creates the cover of The Sun Is …
Reading can incite the imagination. We can envision entire worlds, fictional characters as if they were real, and breathtaking action with well-chosen language in vivid description. With all that …
If you’re anything like me, you enjoy the off-beat parts of life, the quirky things that make you chuckle (maybe even laugh out loud). Last week, I shared 7 …
Whoever said that print was dead? Designer Ben Pieratt has created a new ongoing creative project called the Dead Bookstore, in which he breathes new life into old books …
Vincent Van Gogh was an artistic legend born in the Netherlands in 1853. Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in …
A manuscript of Sir Issac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was recently sold by Christie’s at an auction for fine printed books and manuscripts. It broke an auction record for …
There’s nothing better than giving a gorgeous, hardcover art book as a gift to the art lovers in your life. You don’t even need to be an artist or …
As the year winds down, the lists of the best books of 2016 are pouring in as everyone takes a moment to look back and reflect. With all the …
Remember those Paint By Number books from when you were little? Well, thanks to Workman Publishing, they’re bringing back that concept, but in a whole new way. Paint By Stickers …
Carrie Schneider is a Brooklyn-based artist whose most recent art exhibition, “Reading Women,” has been on display since late October in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at …
Next year, Argentinian conceptual artist Marta Minujin has plans to construct a massive installation in order to promote intellectual freedom and to protest literary censorship in Germany and around …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Nonetheless, while her heroines may have found true …
Nuit Blanche is an art festival that graces the streets of cities such as Toronto, Montreal, and Paris. In fact, over 120 cities worldwide have included Nuit Blanche activities …
The topic of makeup has turned into a complicated and diverse subject. For a lot of people, it’s just another tool to look clean and polished at work. However, …