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1 unmissable newsletter + 5 fresh art picks? Leave it to Leonor!

We’re suckers for fellow native New Yorkers with an arty bent, particularly when they’ve got a deep sense of the city’s culture and a seemingly endless eagerness to explore it. Today’s 5+5 interviewee, Brooklyn-based Leonor Mamanna, checks those boxes and then some. In her Q+A, she picks a few ch...

More (free!) artist-made backgrounds to cheer up those video chats

This art’s got your back—literally! Today we’re dropping our second serving of free, downloadable, artist-made backgrounds to make over your video meetings. It was SO FUN to see screenshots of folks using selects from the first set, we couldn’t wait to get new options out there for ya. 29 more ar...

These artist-approved studio jams make a perfect summer playlist.

Here’s something in the key of awesome: this installment of Art Mixtape does things a little differently. Every time we interview an artist for our In the Studio tours, we ask them what’s on their in-studio playlist. Turns out, when we bring all those go-to tracks together it makes for one seriou...

Swing by this painter’s SoCal home studio — no travel necessary.

We always love cozying up with artists in our In the Studio series, and the current moment’s made us even more grateful for the opportunity to mix up our milieu. It’s been especially interesting to hear how our artists are adjusting to the new normal, how they’re keeping their creative process cr...

Artist-designed temp tats! Cuz skin is in + art is on.

We’re all for wearable art in any form. What better way to level up your art appreciation than advertising it on the go? Besides, if you love art as much as us you’re prooooobably gonna run out of wall space eventually. So wear your art on your sleeve, and while you do that don’t forget one parti...

Martha Rich makes voting reminders + COVID safety look cool.

Martha Rich's floor design for Mural Arts' Space Pads project to encourage social distancing Martha Rich is our kind of rabble rouser, channeling her acerbic wit and aesthetic talent into happy-making art and do-gooder deeds. And she’s one productive sparkplug! Rich has kept the art coming from h...

Art for NYC lovers—135 yrs since Lady Liberty landed!

Most New Yorkers would be hard pressed to tell you the last time they saw the Statue of Liberty up close, let alone set foot on Liberty Island—but that doesn’t mean we love our Lady any less! She symbolizes freedom, enlightenment, endurance, come-as-you-are open-mindedness ... Besides, as nationa...

New! Two vintage summer camp scenes captured by Gordon Parks

Attention campers! Today we’re taking it back with two vintage photographs from the summer of 1943, masterfully shot by the great Gordon Parks. The summer camp scene looks a little different this year, with widespread cancellations and precautions in place, but where real life is pressing pause o...