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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An exhibition of Depression-era paintings by federally-funded artists provides a hopeful view of life during economic travails
June 2009 | By Jerry Adler

As the first of the New Deal acts that funded public art projects with federal money, the PWAP produced more than 15,000 works of art in just six months
May 19, 2009 | By David A. Taylor

At the National Portrait Gallery, artist David Lenz pays tribute to a champion for the intellectually disabled
May 11, 2009 | By Barbara Sanford

A painter by training, Edward Steichen changed fashion photography forever
May 2009 | By Owen Edwards

An associate of Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga reflects on his subjects and his career as a photographer
April 14, 2009 | By Jeff Campagna

Half a millennium later, the story of the painting of the Sistine Chapel is as fascinating as Michelangelo’s masterpiece itself
April 10, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

Astrophysicist Don Olson breaks down the barriers between science and art by analyzing literature and paintings from the past
April 2009 | By Jennifer Drapkin and Sarah Zielinski

April 22, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

A long-forgotten poem about the African-American experience is given new life in a multimedia performance featuring singer Jessye Norman
March 13, 2009 | By Laban Carrick Hill

Turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Thayer created images of timeless beauty and a radical theory of concealing coloration
April 1999 | By Richard Meryman

The Los Angeles County Museum aims to draw new visitors and historic insights with a landmark costume acquisition
March 06, 2009 | By Jeanne Maglaty

A new exhibition re-establishes Lievens' reputation as an old master, after centuries of being eclipsed by his friend and rival
March 2009 | By Matthew Gurewitsch

It took three generations to produce Wayne F. Miller's photograph of his newborn son
February 2009 | By Owen Edwards

A portrait created by a graphic designer ended up becoming the icon for the Obama campaign and an international phenomenon
January 14, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

The long-forgotten art form receives a long overdue renaissance in an exhibit featuring centuries-old woven tapestries
December 23, 2008 | By Matthew Gurewitsch

For Vincent Van Gogh, fantasy and reality merged after dark in some of his most enduring paintings, as a new exhibition reminds us
January 2009 | By Paul Trachtman

A new exhibition celebrates the work of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, masters of American Arts and Crafts architecture
December 09, 2008 | By Arthur Lubow

In rural Connecticut, a 300-year-old nativity scene is brought back to life by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 08, 2008 | By Courtney Jordan

Yousuf Karsh took a singular approach to fame and the famous. As the centennial of his birth approaches, do his photographs hold up
December 2008 | By Matthew Gurewitsch

The artist sketched American wildlife for Europe's high society, educating them on the creatures living among the unexplored lands
December 01, 2008 | By Megan Gambino

December 01, 2008 | By Jesse Rhodes

Andy Warhol's political portraits anticipated today's blurred boundaries between public office and stardom
October 31, 2008 | By Julia Ann Weekes

Visitors catch a glimpse of the groundbreaking, abstract art created by preeminent 20th century expressionists.
November 01, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

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