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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The Baroque master animated 17th-century Rome with his astonishing sculpture and architecture
October 2008 | By Arthur Lubow

On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
September 2008 | By Lynell George

September 01, 2008 | By Megan Gambino

Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
September 2008 | By Richard Covington

With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her art dealer Bernard Berenson took American collecting in a new direction
August 12, 2008 | By Cynthia Saltzman

The author of Old Masters, New World discusses how 19th century American collectors acquired European masterpieces and what it meant for museums and our nation.
August 12, 2008 | By Alison McLean

A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?
August 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11
August 01, 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

Call them gaudy, call them kitsch, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target
July 2008 | By Matthew Gurewitsch

The photographer uses movie production techniques to create "in-between moments." But you'll have to supply the story line
June 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

Europe's idiosyncratic house museums yield pleasures beyond their size
June 2008 | By Tony Perrottet

On the artist’s innovative spirit
May 19, 2008 | By Amei Wallach

Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era
May 20, 2008 | By Siobhan Roth

Revealing art secrets—and exposing forgeries
May 15, 2008 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

At the Museum of Fakes, what's not real is still art
May 08, 2008 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art
May 02, 2008 | By Christina Larson

Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?
May 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander's mastery
May 2008 | By Robert M. Poole

An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine's last remaining year-round island communities
May 01, 2008 | By Dean Lawrence Lunt

Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance
May 01, 2008 | By Robin Reid

A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer's staying power
May 2008 | By Robert M. Poole

In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as the photographer who caught the fullest range of her vibrant personality
May 2008 | By Michelle Stacey

Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller tells us what it takes to stage a hit musical
April 01, 2008 | By Megan Gambino

Whether denouncing France's art establishment or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back
April 2008 | By Avis Berman

The inaugural show of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
February 2008 | By Lucinda Moore

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