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Hundreds of Tourist Photos Woven into One

This is brilliant art–visually arresting while intellectually stimulating. Switzerland-based Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world’s most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before. Her art is created not by acrylic, oil, or watercolor, each piece is made by combining hundreds of tourist photos into one. After conducting an online keyword search and sifting

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Gorky Retrospective at MOCA

For those of you in LA/visiting LA soon, I highly recommend checking out the Arshile Gorky retrospective at MOCA (the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art). The museum has put together a great collection of beautiful and compelling pieces. Until I visited, I’d only been roughly familiar with Gorky’s work–the color, the amorphous shapes, and

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Wordle – word cloud art

Just tried this “cloud art” using Wordle–a self-proclamied “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” You can pipe in your website URL, or paste in any text. Then you have a bunch of cool control over design, layout, color, and more. Here’s one of the pictures it made for SalvoLavis.com:

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David Hockney | NYTimes.com

I love David Hockney’s work, especially his iconic photo collages like Pearblossom Highway. One of the best art exhibitions I ever saw was at MOCA years ago: a collection of many of Hockney’s original photo collages. They are huge, beautiful, full of energy, and awe inspiring. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, have a browse here. For

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