In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation
The outsider architect-artist has finally wooed the establishment, winning the Copper-Hewitt's Lifetime Achievement Award, but he's still mixing things up
For centuries, music notation was an inexact technique and hasty transcriptions may have resulted in this symbol
Look up for robotic ravens and cyborg pigeons
The early Greeks and Renaissance artists had birds on their brains
Historian John Reddick looks at the people behind the neighborhood's recent reemergence as a thriving destination in the public eye
A theorist who can't stop planning has big ideas for his hometown on sustainability, equity and the right to the city
From Orson Welles to Twitter, a look into the classic time-telling relic from your grandparents' attic
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner Margie Ruddick talks about blending ecology, architecture in first-ever permanent living indoor installation
A surprising examination of the original book jacket art to The Great Gatsby
One of the founding father's more quixotic quests was to create a new alphabet. No Q included
The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail
From a Las Vegas Denny's with a wedding chapel to rock 'n' roll posters, this year's design award winners have a good time with great design
There's a word for that odd quirk of Apple iPads that hold on to design components of old keyboards
What came first: the typist or the keyboard? The answer may surprise you
With programmable robots and student competitions, Lego is making “tinkering with machines cool again”
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
Without this simple invention, impressionists such as Claude Monet wouldn’t have been able to create their works of genius
Venture into the highly regulated and fascinating world of bovine pyroglyphics
These infrastructural lines mark the pathways of pipes and wires beneath the paved surface -- but what does each color mean?
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