Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties is a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, which examines young people’s powerful influence on the visual culture of the 1920s.
Youth and Beauty at the Brooklyn Museum
Posts Tagged: Art
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Nothing in the World But Youth
Nothing in the World But Youth is a prolific museum exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate, a seaside town in England.
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Street Snaps
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s.
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DPony Movie
DRMTX from Johnny Woods on Vimeo.
The original footage for these videos came from my vault of VHS tapes that my friends and I made when we were in high school in Princeton, NJ.
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Self Portrait
Inspired by the high school self portrait by Andy Warhol, ‘Picking His Nose,’ I collected portraits from young artists that are making work less refined, more crude.
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Hanging Rock Comics
Taylor-Ruth is a seventeen-year-old comic artist/tumblr-er. High school turmoil feeds the fire of her work.
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My Life On Earth
Born in Dallas, Texas in 1983, Ronny Long is a self-taught artist whose work revolves around horror, wrestling and Bigfoot.
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High School Illustrated
Brooklyn Public Librarian Ben Gocker recently shared this series of drawings made by students at Manual Training High School for their literary-art publication, Prospect.
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Maiko Life
Day in the life of young maiko. Maiko are apprentice geishas, the literal translation is ‘dance child’.
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Leningrad Album
“One day, in Leningrad in the late sixties, a boy—or maybe two—endowed with a sensitive judgment and feeling for art imagined the following: how might the best girls, mentally, intellectually and visually seen, dream of him, although not only that…” Evgenij Kozlov
These eye popping drawings are by 14-year-old Evgenij Kozlov, made in 1960s communist Russia.