Art

April 11, 2025

Peanuts Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary With a Snoopy Haute Couture Makeover

Back in 1982, Connie Boucher had an idea. For years, she’d been working with Charles M. Schulz on creating products for his Peanuts characters, including plush dolls of the beloved Snoopy alongside dedicated wardrobes with which to accessorize him. Why, she thought after a while, couldn’t Snoopy also wear haute couture? Thus began an enduring tradition of fashion houses curating outfits for Snoopy and, over 40 years later, not much has changed.

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April 10, 2025

Milan Design Week 2025: Google Teams up With Light Artist for Fascinating Interactive Installation

For Milan Design Week, Google Design Studio has teamed up with artist Lachlan Turzcan for an immersive installation that transforms light into something tangible. The work, Lucida (I-IV), is presented in the context of Google's Making the Invisible Visible exhibition, which aims to reveal how abstract ideas become tangible forms. With Lucida, Turzcan hits on this theme with several veils of light that fill an enormous space.

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April 9, 2025

Vibrant Paintings Reimagine Natural Landscapes as Chromatic Oases for a Psychedelic Escape

London-based artist Neil Raitt creates vibrant landscape paintings that draw viewers into surreal, utopian worlds. Each captivating composition blends mountains, jungles, rivers, and wildlife, creating psychedelic scenes that feel both familiar and dreamlike. Raitt, now 39, has spent years shaping his unique painting style, but he’s been making art for as long as he can remember.

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April 8, 2025

Want To Start Drawing With Colored Pencils? This Beginner’s Guide Makes It Easy

As with any new endeavor, learning how to draw with colored pencils can be intimidating. After all, there are so many different brands of pencil to choose from, an overwhelming variety of paper qualities and weights, and an arsenal of extra gadgets geared specifically towards colored pencil drawing. But don’t worry: My Modern Met Academy has a new class, Colored Pencil for Beginners, that teaches you the basics of realistic drawing.

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