The Creative Commons

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Amazing street art from around the world

Earlier this year, the Guggenheim Museum put online 65 modern art books, giving you free access to books introducing the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Now, just a few short months later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a portal that will “eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals” published by the Met since 1870.

Several focal points define the work of New York-based artist Eric Cahan. Among them: light, specifically the light generated by the sun at sunrise and sunset, science, nature, and the ephemeral quality of memories. These considerations are in play when, equipment in tow, Cahan heads outside at a carefully chosen hour of morning or evening to begin creating one of his flawless, ethereal works of art.

Hua Tunan is a rising artist in China. Combining the traditional elements of Chinese art and culture with a modern twist, Hua brings about beautiful explosions on the canvas.
Based out of Foshan, Hua (also known as 画图男) does performance and street art in addition to his paintings. His work has gathered the attention of companies such as Volvo, who flew him out to Zurich to do graffiti art on one of their blank cars for a performance. As his art continues to stimulate viewers, we at Visual News will keep an eye on him and his work at Chinese creative agency NeochaEDGE.

Art.sy is a new site that has indexed thousands of works of art that you can view online. Art.sy allows you to browse for artworks according to medium, style, subject matter, movement, or region in which the art is produced. Once you've found an artwork that you like, Art.sy helps you find more by suggesting related works.

When photographer James Mollison was asked to do a project on children’s rights, he found himself thinking back to his childhood bedroom and the deep importance it played in his upbringing. Taking that idea with him around the world, he photographed a diverse cross section of children and the bedrooms they call home. His moving images remove the children from their home environment, showing them before a neutral background that mostly hides their economic status as if to say “kids are just kids.” Only when their bedroom is observed, however, does the full scope of their living situation become poiniently clear.

As wife of the brilliant but 'extremely demanding’ artist Roger Hilton, she put his career first – and hers on hold. Now, at 81, Rose Hilton is making up for lost time.

Artist Dale Chihuly celebrates the beauty of creative expression both indoors and outdoors in the newly renovated community space at Seattle Center called Chihuly Garden and Glass. The space, which encompasses 1.5 acres of land, includes an exhibition gallery, a garden, and a glasshouse as the centerpiece of the ambitious project.

We live in a time when reimaging both content and materials is the sign of the times. Enter Brazilian visual artist Vik Muniz and his famed remaking of the famous Van Gogh painting Starry Night from various magazines. Here, Muniz shares his process for creating intricate collages based on images that "are already part of our collective visual memory." The piece is part of Vik's best-known large-scale pieces, "Pictures of Magazines."

The micrograph artwork is directed solely by nature’s mystery and
peculiarity, richness and complexity.

British photographer and professor rob kesseler captures the exotic microscopic detailing of various flora. merging the worlds of
art and science, kesseler's depictions of the natural world were initially inspired by medieval stylistic illustrations and dutch flower paintings -slowly evolving to reveal the ornate and mesmeric structures of the various plant material he examined.

Geo aka George Atherto, is an enlightened digital artist who creates what he is most passionate about. Venturing to India to explore his journey as a yoga teacher, he found inspiration from his experiences there and it contributed to the shaping of his style and vision. His practices of martial artistry, asana, pranayama, meditation, and lucid dreaming are all areas that he says spark the center of his creative spirit.