Art
Was Mona Lisa's Enigmatic Smile Caused by a Thyroid Condition?
Doctor theorizes that the sitter's lank hair, weak smile and yellowing skin point to post-pregnancy hypothyroidism
See the Electrifying Art Lighting up This Year's LUMA Projection Arts Festival
The Binghamton visual arts festival is the only one in the U.S. to focus exclusively on projection mapping
Madrid’s Prado Museum Will Spotlight Pioneering Duo of Female Renaissance Artists
Lavinia Fontana is widely considered the first professional female artist, while Sofonisba Anguissola served as Philip II of Spain’s court painter
Now You Can View the Travel Sketchbooks of Françoise Gilot, Artist and Inspiration to Picasso
The sketches were made in the '70s and '80s, during Gilot’s journeys abroad
British Aristocrat Commissions 180-Foot Monument Celebrating Elizabeth II’s Reign
The Third Viscount Devonport has chosen sculptor Simon Hitchens to bring the Elizabeth Landmark to life
Helsinki's New Subterranean Art Museum Opens Its Doors
The Amos Rex Museum is located beneath Lasipalatsi, a 1930s shopping center known as the ‘Glass Palace’
An Immersive Art Installation Will Temporarily Resurrect the Berlin Wall
This fall, event organizers plan on constructing a pseudo-city within a block of Berlin in order to emulate life in an unfamiliar country
63 Works By Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele Are at the Center of the Latest Nazi-Looted Art Dispute
The German Lost Art Foundation removed the artworks from its database, suggesting they were saved by a collector's relatives rather than seized by Nazis
Travel Through the Landscapes That Inspired Salvador Dalí
Three destinations in northeastern Spain offer a unique glimpse into the life of the famous surrealist
Astronomers Say This Reflective Space Sculpture Will Cause Unneeded Light Pollution. The Artist Argues Otherwise
‘Orbital Reflector,’ a 100-foot long, diamond-shaped balloon, aims to inspire humans to gaze up at the night sky with a renewed sense of wonder
Born Into Slavery, Bill Traylor Would Become a Leading Light of Self-Taught Art
A new show at the Smithsonian American Art museum highlights his work
Shuttered Amid Protests Last Year, Queer Art Exhibition Reopens in Rio
A successful crowdfunding campaign helped bring “Queermuseu” back to life
Christie's Will Be the First Auction House to Sell Art Made by Artificial Intelligence
Christie's will sell the work from Paris-based art collective Obvious, which created ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ with the machine-learning algorithm GAN
A 2,000-Year-Old Golden Horse Head Suggests Romans Actually Got Along Wth German 'Barbarians'
The sculpture fragment suggests Romans lived peacefully alongside Germans until a decisive defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest
'Baroque's Leading Lady' Artist Michaelina Wautier Finally Gets Retrospective
The 17th-century painter mastered an array of genres at a time when most female artists were consigned to painting flowers
Swiss Institute Reimagines Duchamp’s Readymades for the Modern World
The exhibition asks visitors to revisit the objects in their daily life that are often taken for granted
How an Artist Is Rebuilding a Baghdad Library Destroyed During the Iraq War
“168:01,” an installation now on view at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, encourages visitors to donate books to the University of Baghdad
European Printmakers Had No Idea What Colonial American Cities Looked Like, So They Just Made Stuff Up
To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly imaginative and inaccurate scenes
Fog Sculptures Are Enshrouding Boston's Historic Parks
Artist Fujiko Nakaya brings five fog installations to life to mark the Emerald Necklace Conservancy's 20th anniversary
This Los Angeles Grocery Store Has 31,000 Items — and You Can't Eat Any of Them
Browse rows of Butterfingers, ramen packets and "fresh" produce crafted out of felt
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