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Origami: A Blend of Sculpture and Mathematics
Artist and MIT professor Erik Demaine makes flat geometric diagrams spring into elegant, three-dimensional origami sculptures
The Gory Details of Artist Katrina van Grouw’s Unfeathered Birds
A British artist, with experience in ornithology, explains how she created anatomical drawings of 200 different species of birds for a new book
Covered in Ink, Cross-sections of Trees Make Gorgeous Prints
Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash Gill uses ink to draw out the growth rings of a variety of tree species
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Through January 2013, the Natural History Museum is home to stunning photographs of wildlife around the world
May 24, 2012
| By Smithsonian.com
One enthusiast's collection, on exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California, offers a sweeping look at grass-roots movements since the 1960s
May 23, 2012
| By Jeff Greenwald
They came, they clucked and they conquered. Get the story behind these absurd portraits and how they came to be
May 18, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Cape Cod's dune shacks are American culture's home away from home
June 2012
| By Paul Starobin
Sculptor Danh Vo deconstructs the American icon
June 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The Italian art movement that celebrated modernity still moves us 100 years later
April 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Designer Kellee Santiago picks five artful video games that tell the history of the medium
March 05, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Bassist Carol Kaye blazed her own trail, as the only female studio musician to record some of the greatest songs of the ’60s and ’70s
February 28, 2012
| By Kent Hartman
The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual
March 2012
| By Ron Rosenbaum
For artists such as Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams, the Polaroid SX-70 was the digital camera of its day
February 22, 2012
| By Jeff Campagna
Was Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical chart actually a collaborative effort?
February 2012
| By Toby Lester
The 36-year-old pop artist and Pixar veteran brings a modern twist to the gods and demons of Hindu mythology
December 21, 2011
| By Jeff Greenwald
In a new book and exhibition, the esteemed photographer pursues a passion for history and lets us see familiar icons in a fresh light
January 2012
| By Terence Monmaney
Like the Steins, other collectors and patrons influenced 20th-century art by supporting new genres and unheralded artists
January 2012
| By Arthur Lubow
It's easy to see the value of a Picasso painting now. But would you have bought one in 1905, before the artist was known? These siblings did.
January 2012
| By Arthur Lubow
A new museum devoted exclusively to the work of the abstract painter is opening in Denver. A leading critic takes a close look at one masterwork
December 2011
| By Peter Plagens
Michael Heizer waited decades to find the perfect rock for his Levitated Mass, and now he awaits its slow journey from the quarry to an L.A. art museum
November 09, 2011
| By Michal Lemberger
Beloved by 19th-century audiences around the world, the African-American artist fell into obscurity, only to be celebrated as a genius more than a century later
October 19, 2011
| By Lucinda Moore
A new exhibition of American wonders underscores the debt our country owes to its waterways
November 2011
| By Daniel Walker Howe
The "dedicated amateur" photographer had a strange way of getting his subjects to reveal themselves
November 2011
| By David Zax
A 1934 barnstorming visit to her native country transformed Stein from a noteworthy but rarely glimpsed author into a national celebrity
October 14, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
Through mastering calligraphy in college, Jobs learned to think like an artist
October 06, 2011
| By Henry Adams
Later in his career, the 20th century painter explored abstract art in numerous large paintings, now on view in a new Smithsonian exhibit
September 23, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
A curator from the Hirshhorn Museum explains how art historians define the two classifications
September 23, 2011
| By Megan Gambino
A new major retrospective recounts the artist's seven-decade career and never-ending experimentation
October 2011
| By Mark Stevens
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