The art nerd cheat sheet

Podcasts

The first mobile marketplace for art, interviews leaders who are at the forefront of technology’s role in the art world.

State Of The Art

On State Of The Art, Ethan Appleby, the founder of Vango Art, the first mobile marketplace for art, interviews leaders who are at the forefront of technology’s role in the art world. The guests on this weekly podcast include artists, founders and chief executive officers who are making waves in the world of technology, art and design.

Sotapodcast.com

Bad At Sports

According to its website, Bad At Sports, a weekly podcast, features over 20 principal collaborators. Founded in 2005, it features artists who talk about art and the community that makes, reviews and participates in it. The podcast represents “artists and their art world through an archive that is text, audio, physical, ephemeral, historical, and constantly evolving through ongoing and unique projects".

Badatsports.com

Sidedoor gives listeners insight into the Smithsonian vaults, home to art and cultural treasures.

Sidedoor: Smithsonian Institution’s new podcast

Sidedoor gives listeners insight into the Smithsonian vaults, home to art and cultural treasures. Now in its second season, Sidedoor is hosted by Tony Cohn, who takes the help of biologists, historians, artists, archaeologists and other experts, to engage listeners in everything from the art of war to technology’s hold on us.

Si.edu/sidedoor

An anthology of introspective thoughts from today’s esteemed artists, poets and critics on the elusive subject of the contemporary concept of the sublime.

Books

Educating Artists For The Future: Learning At The Intersections Of Art, Science, Technology And Culture edited by Melvin L. Alexenberg

In Educating Artists For The Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific enquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values offers groundbreaking guidelines for art education in an era of emerging new media.

The Future Of Art: A Manual by Ingo Niermann with Erik Niedling

In The Future Of Art: A Manual, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in the footsteps of Honoré de Balzac (who wrote the short story, The Unknown Masterpiece, in which he invented the abstract painting) to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. There’s also a documentary of the same name, directed by Niermann and Niedling, which features interviews with contemporary artists, curators, collectors and critics.

Sticky Sublime edited by Bill Beckley

An anthology of introspective thoughts from today’s esteemed artists, poets and critics on the elusive subject of the contemporary concept of the sublime. The book features in-depth essays by art critics such as Harold Bloom, David Hickey, Anthony Haden-Guest, and historians like Barbara Maria Stafford. Sticky Sublime speculates where the beautiful and the sublime will be situated in our post-postmodern, new technology era.

Collection of your favorite works

Websites

Artsy features leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, art fairs and auctions, all in one place.

Artsy

Probably the biggest name in art websites, Artsy features leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, art fairs and auctions, all in one place. With a growing database of 800,000 images of art, architecture and design by 80,000 artists, Artsy has something for everyone—art lovers and collectors alike.

Artsy.net

Digicult

The portal collects and publishes news about events, exhibitions, festivals, interviews and in-depth articles related to the impact of digital technologies on art and culture.

Digicult.it

This online platform created by the Google Cultural Institute features more than 32,000 artworks from museums around the world.

Google Arts & Culture

This online platform created by the Google Cultural Institute features more than 32,000 artworks from museums around the world. It has the latest insights on everything from street art to performing arts. There’s a clear focus on the intersection of technology and art here (the use of Street View, Zoom Views, which lets you zoom in on famous paintings, among other things) that holds great value in the future of art. There’s also a new feature in the Google Arts & Culture app that lets you click a selfie which is then matched with historical portraits to tell you whom you resemble.

Google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/

Apps

Apps

Museums, collectors, curators and others can virtually catalogue their collections, letting you access the app’s growing database.

Dauble and Smartify

Imagine carrying a museum with the world’s best art collection in your pocket. Apps like Dauble allow just that. Museums, collectors, curators and others can virtually catalogue their collections, letting you access the app’s growing database and explore new artworks, artists, galleries and museums from around the world. An app like Smartify, in turn, provides on-screen information about an artwork when you point your camera at it.

Free and available on iOS and Android

Prncpl

The Switzerland-based MCH Group, which organizes Art Basel and the India Art Fair, among others, recently unveiled PRNCPL, an app that will “help art fairs manage their data, and to create the best possible digital experience for its galleries, collectors and visitors". The app uses image recognition to display information on a work when you point your phone at it. Art Düsseldorf is the first art fair to partner with PRNCPL.

Available on iOS

You can recreate, for instance, one of his masterpieces The Starry Night with this.

Other experiences

Van-Go paint-by-number kits

Want to paint like Vincent van Gogh? It’s simple: Just follow the numbers on the colourless painting to fill the blanks with the corresponding colours. You can recreate, for instance, one of his masterpieces The Starry Night with this do-it-yourself kit.

Available at Faradayscienceshop.com

Future World: Where Art Meets Science exhibition

This permanent exhibition at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum in the Marina Bay Sands resort offers an immersive experience of the world of art, science and magic through digital installations. The exhibition takes viewers through the narratives of Nature, Town, Park and Space, using digital storytelling.

Marinabaysands.com/museum

Tanuj Kumar contributed to this story.