Art
The Mind-Blowing 'Rain Room' Comes to Los Angeles
This wildly popular installation art creates an indoor storm—but visitors don't get wet
Ai Weiwei Wants Your Legos
The dissident artist needs millions of toy bricks for his next project
These Brilliant Literary Maps Will Help You Understand Your Favorite Book
A lavishly illustrated atlas for Huckleberry Finn and other classics
This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge
An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure
These Fruits Explode With Color. Literally.
Artist Maciek Jasik won't share the secrets behind his work, but the mystery is part of the fun
This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash
How crop artist Stan Herd made an acre-wide ode to "Olive Trees"
For Sale: Edith Wharton’s $16,500 Baby Rattle
Fanciest. Teething device. Ever.
Playful Artworks at the Hirshhorn Get the Better of One Mystified Observer
A group of international mid-century artists built a number of kinetic experiments into their abstract art
The Only Eyewitness Painting of Lincoln's Assassination Is Finally Being Restored
How a forgotten portrait of the president's dying hours was saved
Ray Harryhausen's Movie Memorabilia Goes Up For Auction
Sketches, models, and a treasure trove of collectibles from Hollywood's first king of special effects
When Art Fought the Law and the Art Won
The Mapplethorpe obscenity trial changed perceptions of public funding of art and shaped the city of Cincinnati
Wearing Your Art On Your Sleeve
These three artists come from a long tradition of creating wearable art. See many more at the Smithsonian's upcoming Craft2Wear show this weekend
Bioluminescent Algae Light Up London’s Merge Festival
This interactive art installation is part science, part fairytale
People Can Now Have Their Tattoos Framed After They Die
A new service turns skin art into a gift that keeps on giving
Nine American Airports for Art Lovers
Your layover just got better
This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers
Artists Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv wrote the software that drives an artwork, in which onlookers catch letters falling on a large screen
Pardoned Turkeys and Voodoo Dolls: Visit These Offbeat Treasures for Free on Museum Day This Saturday
They're all part of the 100-plus museums that will be free on September 26
Mark Twain Was not a fan of the Mona Lisa
"The complexion was bad; in fact it was not even human," he wrote of Da Vinci’s mysterious smiling lady
How Irving Penn Turned Fashion Photography Into a Fine Art
A new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum looks back at a photo giant who blurred the lines
The Big Names of Art (and a Bit of the Unexpected) Debut at the Broad Museum in L.A.
Housing one of the greatest collections of contemporary art in the world, this new landmark is ready for its close-up
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