quote [ "I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time" - Henri Matisse ]

quote [ An Amiga, Deluxe Paint and a mouse. From the late 80s to the early 90s, these 3 tools were at the core of numerous graphic designers’ workstations in the West. It took years for the Japanese industry... ]

quote [ Oh boy, I think I have a new hobby. I've just learned that you can combine puzzles, that have the same die cut, to make really awesome pieces of art. It had never occurred to me that manufacturers of mass-produced puzzles cut different puzzles of theirs in the same way, making the pieces interchangeable. ]

quote [ Students, educators, and just regular art lovers might be interested to learn that we?ve released thousands of images in the public domain on the new website in an open-access format (52,438 to be exact, and growing regularly). Made available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, these images can be downloaded for free on the artwork pages. ]

quote [ Netflix and Warner Brothers face a $50 million (£38m) lawsuit over a statue of goat deity Baphomet. ]

quote [ Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? And if so could this be recreated on both paper and in life? These were questions that concerned both artists and breeders alike in the 17th-century. Dániel Margócsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry. ]

quote [ A beautiful scroll from 19th century Japan depicts an epic battle of flatulence. ]

quote [ Simply put, the mission of this project is to colorize and restore old images. I'll get into the details in a bit, but first let's get to the pictures! BTW ? most of these source images originally came from the r/TheWayWeWere subreddit, so credit to them for finding such great photos. ]

quote [ Not unlike the sanatorium, the new architecture was intended to cure the perceived physical, nervous, and moral ailments brought on by crowded cities. ]

quote [ Not that we have to tell you, but NSFW. ]