Wear and tear

Are holes in your jeans getting too big? Use these tips to patch women's jeans with pretty lace to prevent them from tearing further.

Brooklyn-based digital artist and sculptor, whose 3D printed artwork explores technology's failure to capture the unstable human body.

Explore Dmitry Shakin's 10774 photos on Flickr!

Illustration: Tamar Branitzky. Textile art There is a space in textiles, as in other disciplines, where art and design can play an interactive game. The singular subjectivity of fine art and the gener

I don’t usually write about contemporary artists in this Periodical, mostly because I feel like I have a lot of catch up with learning about art history, but today I want us all to get to know Nelly Agassi. Since I have so many pictures of her work I am planning on posting on Instagram, I thought it

"The mending of clothing and household linen, though wearisome, is nevertheless very necessary, and no woman should be ignorant of the best methods of doing it. There is as much merit in knowing how to repair the damage caused by wear and tear or by accident, as in the perfect making of new articles." Therese de Dillmont, 1884 in the The Complete Encylopedia of Needlework It is not difficult to darn, but very fiddly. Click here for a short demo video. Mending as a way of drawing. "The act of…

If you want that ancient pirate-map look for your next school project or photo display, you don’t have to hunt down actual parchment. You can achieve that tan, crinkled appearance of parchment on poster board as long as you have a little spare time and a whole lot of coffee.

Sometimes art can have rather cryptic titles that need to be carefully elaborated, but that’s not the case in these works by Nicholas Mottola Jacobsen. The title describes pretty precise what the artist has done; tear off pieces of drawings, photos, and illustrations in order to create new pieces of art. In his series ‘Pixelation’ […]

This month Courtney Love told Nancy Jo Sales all about her latest re-invention as “Lady Love,” the British-society darling. See a slide show of the rocker’s evolving style through the years.

Dali might have collaborated with fashion designers (like Elsa Schiaparelli in "Tear Dress"), but he wasn't afraid to make jabs at Spaniards' vanity. Read about it on our blog: d.pr/Eblx