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Free Coloring Books from The Public Domain Review: Download & Color Works by...
Did you somehow miss that the Public Domain Review has gotten in on the adult coloring book craze? If so, don’t feel bad. There were probably a lot of other news items vying for your attention back in...
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Explore MoMA’s Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art Every Time You Open a...
There are browser extensions designed to increase your productivity every time you open a new tab. Others use positive affirmations, inspiring quotes, and nature photography to put your day on the...
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The Rembrandt Book Bracelet: Behold a Functional Bracelet Featuring 1400...
Admittedly jewelry is not one of our areas of expertise, but when we hear that a bracelet costs €10,000, we kind of expect it to have a smattering of diamonds. Designers Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker are...
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Draw Along with Beloved Cartoonist & Educator Lynda Barry: Free Drawing...
How do you rescue a day that’s gone pear shaped? Stopping to drink a glass of water is one of our longtime go tos. If there’s a box of matches handy, we might perform Yoko Ono’s Lightning Piece. Most...
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How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained...
You can be forgiven for thinking the concept of “flow” was cooked up and popularized by yoga teachers. That word gets a lot of play when one is moving from Downward-Facing Dog on through Warrior One...
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The Vincent van Gogh “Starry Night” LEGO Set Is Now Available: It’s Created...
Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most popular and easily recognized paintings on earth. If you haven’t seen it person, you’ve probably seen it reproduced on a postcard, a tote bag, or...
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Enter the Franz Kafka Caption Contest for a Chance to Win a New Book of the...
Imagine if Franz Kafka were charged with picking the winning entries in The New Yorker’s weekly cartoon caption contest. The punchlines might become a little more obscure. If that idea fills you with...
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Behold a Secret Gallery of Art Created Using Discarded Gum on London’s...
Throughout history, determined artists have worked on available surfaces – scrap wood, cardboard, walls… Ben Wilson has created thousands of works using chewing gum as his canvas. Specifically,...
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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago
Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over...
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Winnie the Pooh Went Into the Public Domain, and Someone Already Turned the...
Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood Where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood Of Christopher’s childhood days… Those sweetly sentimental lyrics were penned not by A.A. Milne,...
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A Retired Math Teacher Helps Students Learn Geometry Through Quilting
Some real talk from retired geometry teacher Wendy Lichtman, above, the author of several math-themed YA novels: Not many 15-year-olds care that two parallel lines are crossed by a transversal. “But...
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Behold 900+ Magnificent Botanical Collages Created by a 72-Year-Old Widow,...
“I have invented a new way of imitating flowers,” Mary Delany, a 72-year-old widow wrote to her niece in 1772 from the grand home where she was a frequent guest, having just captured her hostess’...
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The Complete “Everything is a Remix”: An Hour-Long Testament to the...
Let me quote myself: “From 2010 to 2012, filmmaker Kirby Ferguson released Everything is a Remix, a four-part series that explored art and creativity, and particularly how artists inevitably borrow...
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DJ Cummerbund’s Astonishing Mashups Create Unexpected Collaborations Between...
“History in the making,” Jay-Z calls out a few bars into Beyoncé’s debut solo single “Crazy in Love.” The sentiment may be even more germane, when he does it in remix master DJ Cummerbund‘s...
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Dorothea Tanning: The Artist Who Pushed the Boundaries of Surrealism
As Great Art Explained‘s James Payne notes in the above profile of Surrealist Dorothea Tanning, the emotional and psychological complexity of her work invites interpretation, particularly when it...
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John Waters’ Hand-Made, Oddball Christmas Cards: 1964-Present
Ten years ago, we featured John Waters’ handmade Christmas cards, which he’s been making since he was a high-school student in 1964, long before William S. Burroughs deemed him the “Pope of Trash”...
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An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024
Happy New Year! We can now “do to Disney what Disney did to the great works of the public domain before him,” according to Harvard law professor and public domain expert, Lawrence Lessig, hailed by...
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Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
This dance is serious. This dance is necessary. Do you feel that change? — David Byrne Everyone can dance, though some of us need a push from an enthusiastic, encouraging instructor…like...
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Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen...
Imagine, if you will, an evening’s entertainment consisting of an episode of Portlandia, a spin of Nirvana’s In Utero, and a screening of Koyaanisqatsi. Perhaps these works would, at first glance,...
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David Lynch Explains Why Depression Is the Enemy of Creativity–and Why...
David Lynch has a variety of notions about what it takes to make art, but suffering is not among them. “This is part of the myth, I think,” he said in one interview. “Van Gogh did suffer. He suffered...
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