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Ashton Sanders: ‘Black artists still have to work 10 times harder’
The star of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight talks race relations in Hollywood, working with Denzel Washington, and his eclectic taste in movies
Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People
Psychologists have found that the creative personality contains layers of depth, complexity and contradictions.
Why I Became a Teaching Artist
When you're making paper collages, wrinkles are good in more ways than one
An Artist's Harsh Advice Is What Every Creative Person Needs To Hear
"Do more, more nonsensical, more<br>crazy, more machines. Makes them abound with nonsense." -Sol LeWitt
13 Artists Who Turned Ocean Trash Into Amazing Art
For World Oceans Day, 13 artists using marine plastic in their work.
10 Things the Artist and the Entrepreneur Have in Common
Trish Duggan, one of 1,500 billionaires on this planet, shares her wisdom and knowledge about artists and entrepreneurs.
How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious
How Arts Funding Organization Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists How to Be Ambitious
Why Do We Love Images Of Emptiness? Scientists And Artists Explain
Psychology reveals why wide open spaces appeal to the human eye.
Protectors of Artists or Shadowy Thieves?
ASCAP & BMI - Protectors of Artists or Shadowy Thieves?
An Era for Women Artists?
Nearly half a century ago, a feminist art historian asked why there had been no great female artists. A new wave of all-women exhibitions revives the question—and suggests a new answer.
Who Is Your Favorite Visual Artist? What Is Your Favorite Work of Art?
Helping Artists Find Studio Space
Some of the organizations and programs that connect artists with places where they can work.
Should tattoos be considered art? Are tattooers artists?
The way for anything to prove it’s worth, is by producing a better product. Early tattooing had a limited palette, limited machines and limited needle groupings. Such a social stigma was attached to tattoos for generations that truly talented artists often looked elsewhere for careers. And not to pick on just tattooing, the other genres I discussed had the same problems early on. In fact, going back to the beginning of comics, serious artists tended to do something that involved more money and…
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Curtis Benzle takes issue with the idea that it's very difficult for artists to make a reasonable living. He told us all about his three-pronged formula for success.
What Are Artists For?
A new MOMA exhibition surveys a time when artistic independence was often sacrificed to ideology.
How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
How to Take Positive Feedback as an Artist
The term "masochistic epistemology" seems appropriate, no?
Why can’t great artists be mothers?
A group of rising artists strongly rejects the all-or-nothing, children-versus-art premise
Why do Artists Create Art?
Why do artists make art? They create for a variety of reasons, including fun, expression, effecting the viewer, tell stories, and more.
10 Writers and Artists Who Wanted Their Work Destroyed
Whether from a lack of confidence, concerns over sensitive contents, a change of direction, or simply a fit of pique, a number of artists and writers have destroyed their own work.
