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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How the pathbreaking comedian got his act together
February 2008 | By Steve Martin

From Margaret Bourke-White to Annie Leibovitz, photographers have scaled dizzying heights to frame the perfect prop
February 2008 | By David J. Marcou

Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist
January 2008 | By Arthur Lubow

Art Basel Miami Beach is a giant fair that's fueling the city's explosive arts scene
December 2007 | By Phoebe Hoban

How one retired Army Reserve Major taught soldiers to save artworks and antiquities during wartime
February 01, 2008 | By Adam Minter

No one was prepared for the pillaging of Baghdad's Iraq Museum in 2003, but a fast-thinking Marine officer, Col. Matthew Bogdanos, improvised an investigation—and helped recover thousands of stolen antiquities
February 2008 | By Robert M. Poole

The artist's tumultuous last days
January 2008 | By Lyn Garrity

In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture
January 2008 | By Victoria Olsen

Warning: David Maisel's aerial landscapes may be hazardous to your assumptions
January 2008 | By Megan Gambino

A listing of some of next year's premier art shows
November 26, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Portraitist Emmet Gowin's most enduring subject is his wife
December 2007 | By David Zax

Recognizable forms are showing up in the works of a new wave of contemporary painters
October 2007 | By Paul Trachtman

Even in 1992, Steve McCurry says, Kabul was full of surprises
November 2007 | By Robert M. Poole

Former Sotheby's paintings appraiser Nan Chisholm evaluates her work
July 01, 2007 | By Cate Lineberry

A photo gallery of Nora Naranjo-Morse's inspiring outdoor designs
October 31, 2007 | By Nicole Wroten

Panels from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti tour the U.S. for the first time
November 2007 | By Arthur Lubow

A new exhibition of works by Childe Hassam, a pioneering interpreter of the French style, highlights his "incorrigibly joyous" break with the past
August 2004 | By Doug Stewart

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