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Through staged fashion shoots, an artists' collective critiqued the ascendant sportswear retailer
April 11, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
The brush to block revolution saw a flowering of Japanese popular culture that still intrigues and enchants
April 05, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
This year, a San Francisco-based artist will unveil 365 new paintings, reminiscent of growing bacteria, on her blog, The Daily Dish
April 05, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
A photographer painstakingly pieces together raw data collected by spacecraft to produce color-perfect images of the Sun, planets and their many moons
April 02, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Photographer Thierry Cohen tries to reconnect city dwellers with nature through his mind-blowing composite images—now at New York City's Danziger Gallery
March 29, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Two custom tours come fully loaded with insider information, digital postcards and step-by-step directions
March 27, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
March 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Winners of the triennial National Portrait Gallery competition used everything from rice to glitter to thread to capture themselves and the people around them
March 22, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
With a surprisingly light touch, the New York City-based photographer instills feelings of solitude in his images of massive glaciers
March 21, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
A research fellow at the University of Melbourne has found a sneaky way to convert math haters to math lovers. He turns complex geometries into art
March 15, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The spectacular aurora borealis is inspiring artists to create light installations, musical compositions, food and fashion
March 12, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The Cyrus Cylinder makes its U.S. debut on March 9. It is considered one of the most important archaeological artifacts in history.
March 08, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
From a caterpillar to the Milky Way, the ten finalists in the contest's Natural World category capture the peculiar, the remarkable and the sublime
March 07, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The piece by Taiwanese artist Cindy Chao has a surprise revealed only under ultraviolet light
March 05, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
From a Confederate spy to a deepwater researcher, women are everywhere and the Smithsonian is telling their stories
March 05, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
How the make-believe alter ego of an imaginative teen in the 1970s won him the fame he always dreamed of 40 years later
March 05, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
3D printing is a new technology that seems poised to change the world, but its origins date back all the way to the 15th century
March 01, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Artist Nathalie Miebach uses meteorological data to create 3D woven works of art and playable musical scores
March 01, 2013
| By Marina Koren
In his new book, Serpentine, Mark Laita captures the colors, textures and sinuous forms of a variety of snake species
February 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
February 26, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
Is it art? Or science? With DNA, Eduardo Kac pushes the limits of creativity and ethics
February 22, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Artists are borrowing from biology to create dazzling "biodesigns" that challenge our aesthetics—and our place in nature
February 21, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Macrophotographer Thomas Shahan takes portraits of spiders and insects in the hopes of turning your revulsion of the creatures into reverence
February 20, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Everything from parrots to gossipy novels influenced art in Japan between 1603 to 1868
February 20, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
The Armory Show provoked reactions of love and hate; today it is recognized as changing American art forever
February 15, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
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