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Interview with Vivi Kallinikou, Editor in Chief at ArtRabbit – an independent digital art platform for promoting, discovering and appreciating contemporary art and visual culture.<br /> ArtRabbit is an independent digital art platform for promoting, discovering and appreciating contemporary art and visual culture. Its mission is to make art as accessible as possible. For those who […]

Five years ago Jason founded Artnome, an analytical database of worlds leading artists. His mission has been to create a universal resource that could help tackle the forgery issue in the art world. In doing so, he is assembling the largest digital archive of catalogue raisonné’s. Currently, the platform has over 40 complete archives of […]

With Ars Electronica starting in just a few days, .ART talks to Vicente Matallana, one of the key international players in New Media Art. Vicente is the director of LaAgencia, an independent New Media Art company created in Madrid in 1998, thus being one of the trailblazers in the field. He is also Director of […]

A few easy steps to copyright your artwork and prevent copyright infringement Today’s reality is digital, so if you’re a modern artist it’s highly probable that your works are not hanging on a gallery wall and probably never will. Some time in a not so distant future most people will consider «offline» art exposure and […]

Jon is an Artist who turned into a global ambassador for preserving cultural artefacts using 3D technologies. Jonathan Beck is the Founder of an online cultural heritage project Scan the World, an initiative that archives objects of cultural significance using 3D scanning technologies. Since its inception in 2014, the platform has created over 16,000 downloadable […]

Addressing the Digital Natives Both companies and individuals submitted numerous applications for the Digital Innovation in Art award, supported by .ART for the third year. The Award recognises the innovators in the art industry that are using digital technology to push the traditional boundaries of the art market. This year’s awards ceremony will take place […]

Art furniture that will definitely impress you The 20th century is considered as the golden age of the modern chair. Artists and designers took advantage of the latest technological innovations to re-invent an ordinary piece of furniture. We have chosen 9 creative chairs proving that even a chair can be an artwork if it had […]

.ART talked to the co-founder of DADA, Judy Mam, about what the art world is now, how far it has moved away from what it should be, and how we can try and change it, not in spite of technology but with its help.  When I first logged on to www.dada.art , it reminded me […]

Blockchain is everywhere but its uses are more versatile than one might think. From symbolic depiction of wealth to an artist network powered by Bitcoin, .ART looks at some of the most interesting crypto-projects in the world of art. Blockchain is all the rage these days, including in the art world. Yet how exactly blockchain […]

Sound in visual arts is like colour in music. It is something that we cannot visualize directly. Or can we? This essay on the new .ART blog series, written by our “secret agent” in the art world, covers yet another fundamental element of the art world – sound, and all the implications that come with […]

We've come a long way! .ART was launched in December 2016 by Ulvi Kasimov, a venture investor and patron of the arts, whose company UK Creative Ideas Limited (UKCI) became an operator of .ART under an exclusive agreement with ICANN, the Internet regulating body. Among over 2000 new gTLDs released by ICANN, .ART was in […]

2019 will mark a century of the world-famous architectural style which is still used in contemporary design<br /> <br /> Germany and the whole world will commemorate this year the centenary of one of the most famous architecture style of the 20th century. The history of Bauhaus The term Bauhaus literally means «construction house» and […]

Madmen and politicians are threatening the world’s cultural legacy The all-Instagram famous French artist JR, known for his large-scale prints of faces of locals on house facades all over the world, took the Louvre pyramid to the next level to celebrate Louvre’s 30th anniversary. For a brief moment in time the pyramid appeared to extend […]

Once a visual manifestation of status, now a subject of Pantone-patented hype, colour is still something we really do care about – a lot. So much that a recent research suggests: switching your iPhone to a monochrome mode might drastically decrease your screen time. This first essay on colour, a fundamental factor in the world […]

If you’re anxious or unhappy just try art You are certainly familiar with the concept of catharsis invented by Aristotle. This Greek word means «purification». In the philosopher’s works on poetics it refers to purifying of emotions by tragedy. It is also repeatedly mentioned with regard to the other arts. From very early on people […]

Information is king. It is information that turns average into famous, strange into scandalous and once unknown into celebrity. But is it always authentic and reliable? It may be hard to believe, but before the 20th century the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, was hardly known to anyone and definitely wasn’t […]

Today’s reality is digital, so if you’re a modern artist it’s highly probable that your artworks are not hanging on a gallery wall and will never be. The day is not so far when most people will consider «offline» art exposure and visiting galleries as something old-fashioned. However even if you are sentimentally attached to […]

Art and love always went together – in literature, paintings, and for the real-life artistic couples. Today we reminisce about all things love and the forms it takes for human beings, the only specie capable of making it so complicated. It’s hard these days to write a blog article without referring to Van Gogh, but […]

History of art? Yes, but what about the history that is within the art? What is classic visual art? Something to admire, to just look at and marvel, to understand what mastery is. But also, a detailed study of life back in the day – from architecture and fashion to gastronomical taste. It is the […]

Actress and philanthropist Portia de Rossi has recently launched her new project generalpublic.art that uses unique synograph technology to print modern artwork with all of its original texture. Let’s face it, there is nothing more annoying that the “DO NOT TOUCH” signs we see all over. And even if you aren’t some kind of crazy […]