Social Media Ideas for Artistic Freedom

What the Ed Sheeran and Macklemore controversy tells independent artists about freedom of expression

The Ed Sheeran and Macklemore controversy raises important questions about freedom of expression, artistic independence and the realities of working in the music industry. For inde...

Quote of the Day by Mary Cassatt: "I hated conventional art – I began to live."

Finding the freedom to make art on your own terms.

The Painter

The painter set me free...

10 Filipino Artists Reimagine Democracy Across Philippine Islands through “Sprints” 

What does democracy look like when artists stop illustrating it as it is and start reimagining it as it could

Scotland's artists need freedom, not just a basic income - Jenny Lindsay

If there’s a war in culture, who better than artists to explore that?

FREE SPEECH

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Painting Graffiti on African Burial Ground National Monument Isn't Protected Speech or Religious Practice

Self-coronate yourself elsewhere.

LOOSE

 As I've written in the past, I'm a big fan of loose drawing, especially by artists who've already mastered tight, sophisticated drawing and returned to looseness on the other side...

Kunstfreiheit in Thüringen: Polizei wirft Poetry Slammer Verunglimpfung des Staates vor

Nach einem Poetry Slam in Gera nimmt die Polizei einen Künstler ins Visier. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, den Staat verunglimpft zu haben. Was Juristen dazu sagen. mehr...

Creative work

Why are artists walking away from Ed Sheeran’s tour?

Zara Hedderman, music and arts journalist and author of the Bad Arts newsletter, joins us to examine who gets to decide what can be said on stage, and what happens when artists sta...

Signature artwork

Sewell Killingstad on why making “art for art’s sake” lands you the briefs you love

The Baltimore-based designer and illustrator makes the case for focusing on your own emotions and creative vision to attract the kind of work you really want to create.

Arts council urges artists to put ethics before views

Artists have been urged to put ethical standards ahead of the pursuit of social media views, with the Tanzania National Arts Council, known in its Kiswahili acronym as Basata, call...

Art

Salvadoran artist Luis Serrano paints a mural during a street art festival in San Marcos, El Salvador. — AFP

Four Chennai Artists are Rewriting the Language of Abstraction

Visual Disobedience brings together four Chennai artists whose experiments with line, geometry, paper and perception challenge conventional ideas of form, while revealing a growing...

Metaphorical Art, the Blueprint for Human Spirit

Colorful artwork

"I think of brushstrokes as having a rhythm" – Isabella Nalin Fais on her career in concept art

The Brazilian-born artist talks about her work and influences.

These former inmates turn life behind bars into art

For the formerly incarcerated members of the Bagongbuhay Group of Artists, art becomes one way of confronting the difficulty of rebuilding life after release

An Exhibition of the State Fair’s Rejected Art

A legacy of protest inspires a show of 307 rejected local artists at Douglas Flanders and Associates Gallery.

Roy Cohn, Robert Mapplethorpe and a Trump-Era Dilemma Over Free Speech

When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.

ArtStation is taking action against AI art, but there's one question it doesn't want to answer

Some artists think there's an easier solution.

The National Park System’s Lesser-Known Role as Patron of the Arts

"These wild spaces with heartbreaking stories and uncontainable beauty can change us if we let them," artist Dawn Waters Baker, who has participated in residencies at Big Bend Nati...