Art

Amedeo Modigliani, "Nu Couché," 1917

This Is the Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold At Auction

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché drew a stunning $170.4 million

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This Ear Was Made With Vincent Van Gogh's DNA

What secrets have been whispered into this creepy, living copy of the most famous ear in art history?

Marking the reopening of the Renwick Gallery, Donovan constructed 10 towers by stacking and gluing hundreds of thousands of index cards on top of each other.

What Do One Million Index Cards, Stacked Atop Each Other, Look Like? Artist Tara Donovan Does It Again

The artist's looming installation recalls the volcanic fairy chimneys of Turkey’s Cappadocia region

A hellish landscape drawing newly attributed to Hieronymus Bosch

New Hieronymus Bosch Drawing Found in Private Art Collection

The hellish landscape is "an exceptionally important addition" to Bosch's grim work

“The Chesapeake is one of my favorite waterways, partly because people outside of the area aren’t as familiar with it,” says Maya Lin, who created Folding the Chesapeake at the Renwick Gallery.

Maya Lin Used 54,000 Marbles to Model the Chesapeake Bay

The artist’s highly imaginative waterway was created using satellite imagery from NASA

Hybrid Holism, dress, July 2012. 3D-printed UV-curable polymer. In collaboration with Julia Koerner and Materialise. High Museum of Art.

The Dutch Designer Who Is Pioneering the Use of 3D Printing in Fashion

In a new exhibition, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta shows how Iris van Herpen started a high-tech movement

A detail of Jennifer Angus' work In the Midnight Garden, 2015

How Thousands of Dead Bugs Become a Mesmerizing Work of Extraordinary Beauty

With much love for the insect world, artist Jennifer Angus crafts an installation made entirely out of beetles, cicadas, katydids and weevils

The Renwick’s Curator-in-Charge On What It Means to Open Ourselves to Wonder

Before the renovation, Nicholas Bell asked nine artists to tour the building and think deeply about public spaces dedicated to art

This Incredible Street Art Is Also An Evolution Lesson

In Rome, a giant mural illustrates how life began and evolved

Hidden Poop Joke Found in 17th-Century Art Owned By Queen Elizabeth

The newly restored Dutch painting depicts a man relieving himself

Bonus points if you can find a cat in this picture.

Someone Just Paid $826,000 for the Greatest Cat Painting of All Time

"My Wife's Lovers" pays tribute to the wealthiest cats of the 1890s

Girl Behind Bottle (Jean Patchett) by Irving Penn, New York, 1949, printed 1978

A Major Retrospective of Photographer Irving Penn Includes Previously Unseen Works

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, view works from the master photographer’s 70-year career

First debuted as a minor character in Henson's 1955 TV show Sam & Friends, Kermit the Frog has since become a Hollywood icon.

A New Museum Pays Tribute to the Genius of Jim Henson

Make way for Muppets at Atlanta's new World of Puppetry Museum

An expert at work on a painting at the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure

Inside the Italian Art Hospital That Rescues Old Paintings

A catastrophic flood gave this Florence workshop a new mission

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's "Trace," which used Lego blocks to show political dissidents last year.

Ai Weiwei Wants Your Legos

The dissident artist needs millions of toy bricks for his next project

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, part 2

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

A spaghetti squash explodes with color. Maciek Jasik does not reveal his technique for making produce expel colorful smoke.

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"

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