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 ...

Tumblr has always been a platform where creative people tend to find each other, and the community they built there is unlike ...

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 ...

Just what is it about rap culture and high art that meshes so perfectly? According to Complex, the pair were inspired by other Tumblr blogs like Swoosh Art and Carter Family Portraits (both of which ...

The artist known as ofsparrows has been making waves in the Tumblr art community for a little over a year now—ever since she began producing gorgeously stylized animated works like these: These ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...