Thanks to cool stitchy blog Mr. X Stitch and a link from a friend, we've discovered artist Benjamin Shine, whose works look like sketches from afar but, in fact, are created with mixed media threaded through eyelets screwed into various backgrounds....

Prompted by an article in the New York Times that declares in its headline, "In the Arts, Bigger Buildings May Not Be Better," CultureGrrl has some good thoughts on the matter, pointing out some inaccuracies and some crucial cases overlooked, as well...

Above: “Making Your Own Christmas Cards No Lost Art Here” from The News, Lynchburg, VA, Sunday Morning, December 14, 1952, section IV, p. 1 As promised in previous “Digging Daura” posts, I’m sharing more images this week, and...

We got out our press release on the Fifth Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts last week, and it ran in Art Daily on Saturday, where you may have missed it. Here's the link!

<span style=";font-family:";" >The twentieth century proved that good art does not need to be beautiful in the classical sense. It need not necessarily concern itself with verisimilitude, with a lifelike representation of the physical world around us....