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 ...

6:00–7:00 — Walking Into the Dashboard exhibition opens, featuring work by Cloaque, Hyper Geography, Friendster Friday, Thirozumi, and many others. 7:00–7:40 — Panel: Past, Present, Future: Why Should ...

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 ...

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 ...

The beauty of vulvas has long been celebrated in art. From the cave carvings of the Pleistocene period to the masturbating nudes of Gustav Klimt and Jamie McCartney's 2011 Great Wall of Vagina, lady ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj caused quite a stir when she released the art for her new single "Anaconda." The art for the song showed Minaj crouching with her back turned to the camera, derriere in full view with ...

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 ...