In 1940, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced an unusual contest, “The Artist as Reporter,” with $1,750 in prizes (about $37,000 when adjusted for inflation). It was co-sponsored by the soon-to-debut PM newspaper as “a search for artists who could report the news with brush and pen.”
Hello readers, It’s that day of the week when I send you a roundup of good stuff happening in the sketching world. Also, happy Valentine’s Day! Sketching as Witness A public art project known as the “Wall of Death” serves as a poignant backdrop for this scene of homelessness in Seattle. Drawing by Daniel Winterbottom. […]
The brutal increase of tourism over the past decade has transformed my hometown in many ways. The Tagus shoreline hasn’t been immune to the changes. New restaurants, hotels and nightclubs now dominate an area that used to be the home of maritime and commercial businesses.
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An opportunity to travel to Nepal doesn’t happen every day, so when your best friend from childhood gets married in Kathmandu, you pack up your bags — and your sketchbook, of course — and you fly across the world. I spent 13 fascinating days there in December — an optimal time to visit, as the weather is dry and mild.
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