This painting – and many more – by Noah Verrier is sweet perfection. A colleague shared it in a Slack channel and I have been pining after it ever since. [source: Threads]
Category: art i like
Artist: Known — Illustrator for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ gets long-overdue credit
Give this a listen: A couple years ago, as the writer Sarah Elizabeth was working on her book, “The Art of Fantasy” (out September 12th), a particular illustration kept popping into her mind’s eye. It was the cover for the 1976 Dell/Laurel Leaf paperback edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic sci-fi/fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time.” […]
Meet the painter behind the iconic covers for ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’
Hodges Soileau talks about the images that defined the series for a generation of readers — and why he’s selling the original art to superfans now [Read More] (The Washington Post)
City of Boston names Street Theory as new mural consultant
On April 20, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC) announced that Street Theory will be the city’s mural consultant. It’s a three-year contract totaling over $3.5 million. Through December 2025, Street Theory will work with MOAC and other entities to facilitate and complete “10 to 15 murals or other mutually […]
Boston artist “Blind Fox”
Not every street artist has been thrilled about the rapid rise of the Blind Fox brand. Hagler said she’s received an earful from critics who view her and her peers as sellouts for basing their careers on big business commissions. But she’s not bothered. “Here’s the thing: We need to make money,” she said. And […]