Much has been written about the rise of internet art. We’ve seen URL, Twitter and Google Docs works. But until recently I hadn’t encountered Tumblr art. From its creation in 2007, Tumblr quickly ...

For a few weeks in October La Galleries Lafayette, the enormous Parisian boutique, boards up its windows. Inside, staff at the 19th century department store are building its Christmas displays. This ...

Beyonce, Jay Z, Blue Ivy, Solange, and occasional appearances by Carter family hangers-on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West make this Tumblr art history appropriation gold. It’s no shock that Beyonce’s ...

A typical recent post on a Tumblr called the Jogging depicts a fried egg in the open disc drawer of a DVD player. Like all the images on the site, it is titled in the dry tradition of a museum or ...

The anonymous Montreal-based artist who goes by the online persona Ambivalently Yours is responding to her Tumblr followers' deeply personal messages with drawings. The project began in 2012 when she ...

These eye-catching “still” lifes and landscapes are exciting partly because they’re so simple: gorgeous design with a twist of subtle GIF animation that makes the art feel alive. “My first actual GIF ...

A new generation of feminist artists are favoring a more accessible, democratic method of art sharing, rather than pursuing traditional methods of art-world success like gallery representation and ...

Attention all lovers of feminist art! You need to go check out the Ambivalently Yours Tumblr. Immediately. You'll thank me, I promise. Ambivalently Yours was started in 2012 by an anonymous artist who ...

David Karp is in the midst of a rite of passage that seems universal for the young tycoons of the Internet's social era: He's buying himself a proper swank pad. And like Mark Zuckerberg's luxe but ...

Welcome to our twenty-eighth Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a new blog. Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of commissioned essays for The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium on Saturday, March 9, 2013. This essay is a revised and expanded version of Ben Valentine ...