Tag: artists

  • Artist Creates Pencil Drawings That Appear To Glow Under Neon Lights

    Artist Creates Pencil Drawings That Appear To Glow Under Neon Lights

    Enrique Bernal’s pencil portraits have travelled around the art and design internet because the people in them appear to be standing under a light nobody can find. The paper is white. The face on it is graphite, shaded in the patient grey of a portrait drawn by hand. Then a band of cold blue crosses…

  • Ireland Gave Artists a Guaranteed Income and It Changed Everything

    Ireland Gave Artists a Guaranteed Income and It Changed Everything

    For years, critics have argued that paying people a guaranteed income would only encourage laziness and drain taxpayer money. Ireland just tested that idea on thousands of artists, and the outcome surprised even supporters of the program. After investing millions into a three-year basic income experiment for creatives, the Irish government discovered the program did…