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Apple iPad art: paintings created using Brushes, ArtStudio and Sketchbook Pro apps. Corliss Blakely iPad paintings iPhone Paintings. David Hockney's iPad Art | Dan Costa. Like a lot of New Yorkers, I only go to museums when I am travelling. It's been a year since I went to The Met, MOMA, or the Museum of Natural History, but last weekend I spent 48 hours in Toronto and had to swing by the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) to see David Hockney's Fresh Flowers exhibit. It was a work trip, you see, because the 74-year-old artist made these works exclusively on the iPhone and iPad. The images are beautiful. But, more importantly, they also offer a great example of how consumer electronics and a cheap app can alter not only the creative process, but also how art is distributed. The Fresh Flowers exhibit includes more than 100 iPhone drawings and 100 iPad drawings. They are viewable on mounted devices and projected on screens.

David Hockney started drawing on his iPhone in 2008, and he graduated to the iPad when it was released in 2010. Go to the ROM website and you can download "free" copies of select Hockney drawings. Even so, I found the exhibit quite inspiring. Download David Hockney’s playful drawings for the iPhone and iPad. "How To Download A Boyfriend": The Art World's First Group Show For The iPad. This year, the publishing industry reached a major milestone. According to the Association of American Publishers, e-books now outsell print editions.

Digital readers are no longer “the future" of the book--they’re its present. And as more writing migrates to the digital bookshelf, art is following suit. Paul Chan, the 39-year-old artist known for examining subversive currents in politics and sexuality, became the unlikely founder of a digital publishing house in 2011. His company, Badlands Unlimited, focuses on publishing art in digital formats--though they make infrequent forays into physical print, too.

“Our motto is, ‘we make books in an expanded field,’” explains Chan over email. This spring, Badlands released the first-ever group show curated solely for e-book readers. Much of the work in Boyfriend addresses Internet standards through the lens of romance. How To Download A Boyfriend is available here.