The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Reads tagged with “art”

How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch
How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch

An avant-garde reminder that it’s all in a name.

read article

Conjuring Cohesion and Purpose: How Ursula Nordstrom Cultivated Maurice Sendak’s Genius
Conjuring Cohesion and Purpose: How Ursula Nordstrom Cultivated Maurice Sendak’s Genius

“That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos.”

read article

Taschen’s Jazz: An Illustrated Portrait of New York in the Roaring Twenties
Taschen’s Jazz: An Illustrated Portrait of New York in the Roaring Twenties

Band battles, brass classics, Cotton Club etiquette, and how to do the “double roll” like a pro.

read article

Patti Smith Reads Her Poetic Tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe
Patti Smith Reads Her Poetic Tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe

“Blessedness is within us all.”

read article

The Power of Process: What Young Mozart Teaches Us About the Secret of Cultivating Genius
The Power of Process: What Young Mozart Teaches Us About the Secret of Cultivating Genius

On the “powerful blend of instruction, encouragement, and constant practice.”

read article

Design in a Nutshell: One-Minute Animated Primers on Six Major Creative Movements
Design in a Nutshell: One-Minute Animated Primers on Six Major Creative Movements

From Gothic Revival to Postmodernism, or how Bauhaus ushered in the age of minimalism.

read article

The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies
The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies

Pollock, Dalí, Matisse, Klimt, Picasso, Mondrian, Klee, Boccioni, Kandinsky, and Miro, visually distilled.

read article

Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can Make
Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can Make

“Art is something that you encounter and you know it’s in a different kind of space from the rest of your life, but is directly connected to it.”

read article

The Duality of the Adventurer’s Spirit: A 1929 Meditation on Our Core Contradictions
The Duality of the Adventurer’s Spirit: A 1929 Meditation on Our Core Contradictions

“One third of all criminals are nothing but failed adventurers.”

read article

Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online
Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online

“We can only connect the dots that we collect.”

read article

View Full Site

The Marginalian participates in the Bookshop.org and Amazon.com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. (TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)