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Horticultural Artists Grow Fantastical Scenes at the Montréal Botanical Garden
Take a peek at some of the living artwork entered in an international competition in Quebec this summer
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Sneak Peek: Artist Rina Banerjee Creates “A world Lost…” at the Sackler
Debuting later this week, the new installation at the gallery incorporates everything from shells to ostrich eggs
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Fruits and Veggies Get a Close-Up
In the darkroom, photographer Ajay Malghan creates abstract art by casting light through thin slices of produce
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The Amazing Public Art Deep in the Heart of Texas
Houston has a healthy allowance for beautifying its streets and parks. See how it spends it
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These Bright Webs Depict Flight Patterns Around Major Airports
Software engineer Alexey Papulovskiy has built Contrailz, a site that generates visuals of flight data over cities around the world
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Announcing Our Video Contest Finalists
View our judges’ top 25 picks, and help us select the Readers’ Choice Award winner!
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A collage artist combs through glamour shots of forgotten Hollywood actors to create compelling celebrity mashups
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Inside a lab in Pisa, forensics pathologist Gino Fornaciari and his team investigate 500-year-old cold cases
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The Big Bang: Enthralling Photos of Exploding Bullets
Houston photographer Deborah Bay captures the violent power of projectiles lodged in bulletproof plexiglass
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The Child Prodigies Who Became 20th-Century Celebrities
Every generation produces kid geniuses, but in the early 1900s, the public was obsessed with them
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This Incredible Art Installation Makes It Rain, Everywhere But On You
“Rain Room,” on display at MoMA, is an indoor downpour that detects the presence of people and adjusts to keep them dry
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The Beautifully Strange Photography of Roger Ballen
A retrospective exhibit includes 55 works and the artist’s video collaboration with South Africa’s hip-hop-rave duo Die Antwoord
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Contemporary Art from Oregon’s Umatilla Indian Reservation
A compact exhibit highlights the work of seven contemporary Native American artists at New York’s Gustav Heye Center
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Watch New York City Come Alive in This Amazing Timelapse
Take a sped-up tour of Midtown Manhattan and its residents, non-stop traffic and historic landmarks
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The Vibrant Patterns of Portuguese Men-of-War
Beachgoers despise the stinging animals, but photographer Aaron Ansarov finds surreal beauty in them
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The World’s First Exhibition on Yoga in Art (Photos)
“Yoga: The Art of Transformation” opens at the Sackler Gallery
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One Million Bones To Transform the Mall Into a Symbolic Mass Grave
Meant to call attention to ongoing genocide and atrocity, the artistic protest will include a bone-laying ceremony, workshops and advocacy on Capitol Hill
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5 1/2 Examples of Experimental Music Notation
In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation
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Architect James Wines Talks Putting a Chapel in a Denny’s and Making Art from Garbage
The outsider architect-artist has finally wooed the establishment, winning the Copper-Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, but he’s still mixing things up
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Behind the Smithsonian: The Folklife Archives
You never know what you will find amidst the 50,000 recordings in the Smithsonian’s folk music collection
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