Editors' Picks

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

Arts & Culture Beats

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Unknown and forgotten to history, these painters of America's great landscapes are finally getting their due in a new exhibition
July 21, 2010 | By Judith H. Dobrzynski

George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg found inspiration for their films in the work of one of America’s most cherished illustrators
July 07, 2010 | By Owen Edwards

From Back to the Future to the Terminator franchise, Hollywood has many strange and scary ideas of what will happen by 2050
June 30, 2010 | By Brian Wolly

The director of Avatar and Terminator talks about future sequels, 3-D television and Hollywood in 2050
August 2010 | By Lorenza Muñoz

The director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum predicts how art will engage us as never before
August 2010 | By Richard Koshalek

The late-night talk show host discusses how America's changing demographics will affect what makes people laugh
August 2010 | By Lorenza Muñoz

Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization
April 2010 | By Jeremy Kahn

Late in life, the French impressionist's career took an unexpected turn. A new exhibition showcases his radical move toward tradition
February 2010 | By Richard Covington

Rare artworks from an unsurpassed collection evoke the inner lives and secret rites of Australia’s indigenous people
January 2010 | By Arthur Lubow

A new book offers a revealing look at how the artist created his homey illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post
December 2009 | By Richard B. Woodward

Artist Man Ray mischievously scribbled his name in a famous photograph, but it took decades for the gesture to be discovered
November 10, 2009 | By Abby Callard

As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white
November 2009 | By Richard B. Woodward

Balancing the two lives of a Washington, D.C. sculptor—1950s hostess and emergent artist
September 30, 2009 | By Katy June-Friesen

Two new exhibitions celebrate the enduring wares of ceramics designer and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood
September 29, 2009 | By Nancy Mann Jackson

Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural?
November 2009 | By Henry Adams

New research may shed light on a nearly century-old theory that a sculpture thought to be ancient Greek may be da Vinci’s work
September 18, 2009 | By Marian Smith Holmes

Are figures in a Florentine altar panel attributed to Italian artist Andrea del Verrocchio actually by Leonardo da Vinci?
October 2009 | By Ann Landi

At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation
October 2009 | By Neal Hirschfeld

Bill T. Jones, one of America’s foremost living choreographers, tackles Lincoln’s complicated legacy in his newest work
September 11, 2009 | By Rebecca Milzoff

Continuing a Washington tradition, the Obamas selected artwork from the Smithsonian collections to hang in their historic home
August 04, 2009 | By Abby Callard

At 82, the pathbreaking painter known for stylized figurative works has never been in more demand
August 2009 | By Cathleen McGuigan

António Ole and Aimé Mpane came together to converse through artwork in a new insallation at the National Museum of African Art
June 23, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

For decades, the photographer has documented the physical and cultural changes in Harlem and other American urban communities
June 02, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
May 21, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

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