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## Posts

- [Musician Raygun Busch (Chat Pile) on using art to give back to your community – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/musician-raygun-busch-chat-pile-on-using-art-to-give-back-to-your-community-the-creative-independent/): While Chat Pile’s lyrics aren’t about any one subject, the band is forward when it comes to political messaging.
- [Andstudio on building a global studio from Lithuania](https://artofact.in/andstudio-on-building-a-global-studio-from-lithuania/): Ten years ago, two designers in Vilnius, Augustinas Paukštė and Doman Mikšys, launched Andstudio with no clients and no plan.
- [Actor and director Miriam Shor on learning to value your experience – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/actor-and-director-miriam-shor-on-learning-to-value-your-experience-the-creative-independent/): You’ve been in the acting game for going on 30 years, which is no small feat.
- [Formal Elements and Personality | Albertis Window](https://artofact.in/formal-elements-and-personality-albertis-window/): Standard of Ur, Battle (War) side view, 2550-2400 BCE.
- [As Politicians Break Promises, This Public Artwork Keeps Them](https://artofact.in/as-politicians-break-promises-this-public-artwork-keeps-them/): Paul Ramírez Jonas debuted his participatory artwork “Public Trust” months before Trump was first elected. A decade on, it feels more urgent than ever.
- [Voting for the Arts? – Lines and Colors](https://artofact.in/voting-for-the-arts-lines-and-colors/): If you care about federal funding for museums, libraries, cultural institutions in general, funding for arts education, funding for the insurance that makes inter-museum loans for shows possible, or funding for the arts in general, you should make sure to go to your local polling place on election day and vote in favor of those things.
- [Haunted libraries and demon donkeys: 7 spine-tingling reads at Storehouse • V&A Blog](https://artofact.in/haunted-libraries-and-demon-donkeys-7-spine-tingling-reads-at-storehouse-va-blog/): Halloween may be over, but Spooky Season is alive and well.
- [Musician Samira Winter (Winter) on navigating the unknown parts of your process – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/musician-samira-winter-winter-on-navigating-the-unknown-parts-of-your-process-the-creative-independent/): Do you have any creative rituals you’re practicing these days?
- [Faceted Faces and Surreal Still Lifes Fill GaHee Parks Dreamy Paintings](https://artofact.in/faceted-faces-and-surreal-still-lifes-fill-gahee-parks-dreamy-paintings/): An eye peers from a goblet. A disembodied finger creeps from beneath a curtain. A supine figure, lost in a dream, envisions an uncanny array of game and fruit.
- [Affinity for iPad is here, and its free for individuals](https://artofact.in/affinity-for-ipad-is-here-and-its-free-for-individuals/): If you've ever sketched in one app, turned your work into vectors in another, retouched the photos in a third tool and then laid the whole thing out in something else, then you'll be fully aware how slow and frustrating the creative process can be sometimes.
- [Job Opportunity at The Royal College of Art: Research & Knowledge Exchange Administrator](https://artofact.in/job-opportunity-at-the-royal-college-of-art-research-knowledge-exchange-administrator/): The Royal College of Art (RCA) is the world’s leading university for art and design, renowned for its postgraduate-only community of artists, designers, architects and creative thinkers.
- [Documentarian Ben Proudfoot on making curiosity your north star – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/documentarian-ben-proudfoot-on-making-curiosity-your-north-star-the-creative-independent/): You’re a two-time Academy Award winner and three-time nominee.
- [Artist and death doula Mangda Sengvanhpheng on lineage, ritual, and living between worlds – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/artist-and-death-doula-mangda-sengvanhpheng-on-lineage-ritual-and-living-between-worlds-the-creative-independent/): I want to start by saying how fortunate I feel to be having this conversation with you at this moment in time.
- [Writer and illustrator Mona Chalabi on what money does to us – The Creative Independent](https://artofact.in/writer-and-illustrator-mona-chalabi-on-what-money-does-to-us-the-creative-independent/): Tell me about Ten Lives.
- [Dorothy Napangardi: Floor and Family](https://artofact.in/dorothy-napangardi-floor-and-family/): Dorothy Napangardi, “Yuparli (Bush Banana),” 1993. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas (Australian, Warlpiri people, Western Desert, Northern Territory).
- [Lost Masterpieces: Tracey Emins Tent](https://artofact.in/lost-masterpieces-tracey-emins-tent/): I first came across the book Lost Masterpieces by Michael Collins at the library earlier this year, and I liked it so much that I bought a copy as a birthday present to myself.
- [Artists and Their Children | Albertis Window](https://artofact.in/artists-and-their-children-albertis-window/)
- [Teaching in the Time of Covid-19](https://artofact.in/teaching-in-the-time-of-covid-19/): We have created a Google Doc with resources that we hope will help everyone as we navigate unprecedented teaching challenges with Covid-19.
- [Public Art History and Expertise in the Age of COVID-19](https://artofact.in/public-art-history-and-expertise-in-the-age-of-covid-19/): In the past nine months, we’ve asked in what ways the Smarthistory community can mobilize and transform to meet the needs of students and their professors during this period of crisis in education.
- [Ancient Roman Art Art Movement](https://artofact.in/ancient-roman-art-art-movement/): The Impressionism art movement transformed how the modern world could be seen and painted.
- [Impressionism art movement](https://artofact.in/impressionism-art-movement/): Impressionism is the defining art movement of late 19th-century France, a revolution waged not with manifestos but with light, color and everyday life.
- [Impressionism: Why Light Changed Art Forever](https://artofact.in/impressionism-why-light-changed-art-forever/): Impressionism emerged in late 19th-century France as a radical rethinking of how painters could see—and show—the world.
- [Meteor of Joy: The Young Peoples Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations](https://artofact.in/meteor-of-joy-the-young-peoples-chorus-of-new-york-city-sings-bird-divinations/): Children know the deepest truths about life, the elemental knowledge we unlearn in the act of living, those inarticulable truths music alone helps us remember.
- [Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life](https://artofact.in/albert-camus-on-the-three-antidotes-to-the-absurdity-of-life/): What an astrophysicist might have the perspective to eulogize as “the incredibly improbable trip that we’re on” the rest of us might, and often do, experience as simply and maddeningly absurd — so uncontrollable and incomprehensible as to barely make sense.
- [Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song](https://artofact.in/music-and-the-body-richard-powers-on-the-power-of-song/): In a lifetime of living in this body, I have known no more powerful a homecoming than music — nothing roots us more firmly into the house of being, nothing levitates us more buoyantly to that transcendent place beyond marrow and mind.
- [To Live Is to Believe](https://artofact.in/to-live-is-to-believe/): Remembering Ursula von Rydingsvard, an Epstein survivor’s message for MoMA, interviews with Paul Pfeiffer and Layli Long Soldier, and the best costumes of our artsy Halloween party.
- [The Greatest Art Costumes From Hyperallergics Halloween Party](https://artofact.in/the-greatest-art-costumes-from-hyperallergics-halloween-party/): A Dutch still life, “Beast Jesus,” several esoteric Goya characters, and not one but two Marina Abramović/Ulay references (and not even the most obvious ones!)
- [Halloweens Lost Heroes: Michael Pollan on Radical Gardening and the Insurgent Botanical Origin of the Broomstick in Flying-Witch Legends](https://artofact.in/halloweens-lost-heroes-michael-pollan-on-radical-gardening-and-the-insurgent-botanical-origin-of-the-broomstick-in-flying-witch-legends/): “Oh that beloved witch-hazel,” Emily Dickinson wrote to her cousins in 1876 as she tended to her famous garden, “one loved stalk as hearty as if just placed in the mail by the woods… witch and witching too, to my joyful mind” — her garden, across the hedge from which lived the love of her life, joylessly married to Emily’s brother, absent from Emily’s arms for a quarter century.
- [Michael Cheval (update) – Lines and Colors](https://artofact.in/michael-cheval-update-lines-and-colors/): Michael Cheval, who I first featured back in 2014, is a contemporaty painter, born in Russia, raised in Germany and who studied at the Ashgabad school of Fine Art in Turkmenistan.
- [Cataloguing Caldecott: How do you improve an object record? • V&A Blog](https://artofact.in/cataloguing-caldecott-how-do-you-improve-an-object-record-va-blog/): Completing an extended period of research solely on Randolph Caldecott allowed me to make deeper connections between pieces, from initial sketches to published illustrations.
- [Henry Chalfants New York graffiti photos land at Straat](https://artofact.in/henry-chalfants-new-york-graffiti-photos-land-at-straat/): The art world, and society far more broadly, has had a tempestuous relationship with "street art" over the decades.
- [How to sack a nightmare client without burning bridges](https://artofact.in/how-to-sack-a-nightmare-client-without-burning-bridges/): A creative writes: "I've been working with a client for nearly two years. Every job starts as 'something really simple'. The brief changes halfway through.
- [Edith Hayllars Five oclock tea – Lines and Colors](https://artofact.in/edith-hayllars-five-oclock-tea-lines-and-colors/): Five o’clock tea, Edith Hayllar (1860–1948), oil on canvas, 18 x 14 in. (46 x 35 cm). Image is from a 2011 Christie’s auction.
- [Andrew Wyeths Flat Boat – Lines and Colors](https://artofact.in/andrew-wyeths-flat-boat-lines-and-colors/): Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth, watercolor, drybrush on paper; 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image is from Sotheby’s past auction.
- [Rembrandts Sleeping Puppy etching – Lines and Colors](https://artofact.in/rembrandts-sleeping-puppy-etching-lines-and-colors/): Sleeping Puppy, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, 1 1/2″ x 3″ (4 x 8 cm). This print is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY.
- [Why Is Raja Ravi Varmas Art So Valuable Today? - JSTOR Daily](https://artofact.in/why-is-raja-ravi-varmas-art-so-valuable-today-jstor-daily/): The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
- [How Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Imagined Ancient Rome - JSTOR Daily](https://artofact.in/how-sir-lawrence-alma-tadema-imagined-ancient-rome-jstor-daily/): The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
- [The Lasting Power of Tyeb Mehtas Art - JSTOR Daily](https://artofact.in/the-lasting-power-of-tyeb-mehtas-art-jstor-daily/): The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR.
- [Smarthistorys Expanding the Renaissance Initiative (ERI) — by Dr. Lauren Kilroy Ewbank](https://artofact.in/smarthistorys-expanding-the-renaissance-initiative-eri-by-dr-lauren-kilroy-ewbank/): If you google the word “Renaissance,” on the image tab, you’ll find yourself exclusively in Italy. Smarthistory would like to do something about that.
- [Still a problem: images and art history in 2018](https://artofact.in/still-a-problem-images-and-art-history-in-2018/): We wouldn’t ask students to read an outdated translation of Dante or to read the Inferno with one-quarter of the words missing.
- [Decentering the world—by Dr. Nara Hohensee](https://artofact.in/decentering-the-world-by-dr-nara-hohensee/): This is the second in a four-part series of posts authored by Smarthistory’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Naraelle Hohensee.
- [Reframing the world—by Dr. Nara Hohensee](https://artofact.in/reframing-the-world-by-dr-nara-hohensee/): This is the third in a four-part series of posts authored by Smarthistory’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Naraelle Hohensee.
- [Connecting with the world—by Dr. Nara Hohensee](https://artofact.in/connecting-with-the-world-by-dr-nara-hohensee/): This is the last in a four-part series of posts authored by Smarthistory’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Naraelle Hohensee.

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