Celebrated Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, to honor the arrival of the summer solstice, has designed a pair of Google Doodles for today. “Two super fun, superflat doodles today created by one of our favorite artists Takashi Murakami,” Google tweeted to the world earlier today. Murakami created the art movement known as Superflat that sought to...

Arts Renaissance School In a world where the arts are often the first things cut from school district budgets in an economic downturn, one charter school in North Carolina’s Sandhills is getting a lot of attention for taking the road less travelled.  The Sandhills Theatre Arts Renaissance School was established in 1999.  It was originally initiated by...

The artist Tim Burton was raised in Burbank, California in what many people would call a normal middle-class neighborhood.  Growing up, he was constantly bored, and so he took to drawing as an escape.  The influences behind Burton’s art are traditional gothic fantasies, fairytales, and even pop culture. Remember, tv wasn’t as popular around this time,...