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 ...

Tumblr is a strange and fascinating landscape, home to all sorts of oddities. There's a Tumblr that photoshops tacos onto album covers. There's one dedicated solely to animated gifs of people eating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tumblr is full of well curated blogs featuring creative works from architecture students, professionals, and enthusiasts; Drawing ARCHITECTURE is one of these blogs we’ve found to be particularly ...

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 ...

Massive social blogging site Tumblr is known to many as the birthplace of the modern GIF. Of course, I’m not talking about those annoying, flashy animations all over GeoCities, or even looping images ...

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 ...

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 ...