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Drawing in the 21st Century
Thinking about drawing as coding.
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Painters Guild lets you play with history to discover how the Mona Lisa came to be
Even people who don’t give a shit about art are aware of the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. If you think you’re an exception then let me destroy that notion for you. Heard of the Mona Lisa? Statue of David? How about The Creation of Adam? If you have (and, yes, you definitely have) then yo
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Minecraft is now being used to recreate impressionist paintings
Because of its nature as a sandbox game closer to LEGO than anything else, Minecraft has been used to construct entire cities from famous works of fiction, blocky versions of real-world places, and even a bipedal war robot made of slime and TNT cannons, but it isn’t unheard of to see 2D art recreate
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Look out, Disney! Banksy’s getting into the theme park business
Say what you will about Dismaland, Banksy’s new theme park, but its tagline—“The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction”—might be the rare claim that the artist’s fans and detractors can agree about. Dismaland reimagines Disneyland as a rotting hellscape. Its perimeter walls and Magic Castl
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Shape of the World wants players to take the road less traveled
Don’t follow the yellow brick road.
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New game about sketches mirrors a classic Looney Tunes episode
Have you ever been watching a cartoon when suddenly the screen goes white, the main character is standing there alone, and the animator’s pencil drops down into screen to mess with the world? It’s a classic fourth-wall-breaking gag that’s all over the place in animation—from the classic Looney Tunes
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A new art exhibit turns a coin-op arcade into a cathedral
Tracking the intersection of religion, consumerism and videogames with FAILE.
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Whateverland brings explorable art to personal VR
Designers at Lucid Trips have announced Whateverland, a game world that is also a virtual reality art gallery, allowing players to explore on personal VR devices. Players will be able to propel themselves as a pair of dissociated arms through a colorful “Dreamplanet” and interact with pieces that ca
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It’s about time digital art had a place to call home
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was the first time I saw something resembling a digital frame. The technological magic of his “Picture Picture” device looked like an ordinary painting in a garishly gilt frame until Mister Rogers wanted to show viewers a video. “Hello,” it would sometimes greet him, befo
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Mondrian explores the crossover of a certain Dutch painter and videogame art
All art is, to an extent, the act of throwing your ideas at a canvas and seeing what sticks. In the case of Lantana Games’ Mondrian — Abstraction in Beauty, which is scheduled to launch in August, that description is simply more literal than it is figurative. Mondrian is a classic block breaking gam
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Virtual Light: Exploring In-Game Photography And Photo History
How to have a conversation about in-game photography and not be an idiot about it.
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Unmask corrupt Mexican politics with this surreal art installation
For some, it was only a matter of time before Mexico’s most infamous drug lord escaped. After being captured just last February, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman spent less than 18 months in police custody before it was discovered last weekend that he was no longer in his cell. Instead, prison security dis