Art

Samuel L. Clemens in 1909

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

Mouth (for L’Oréal), New York, 1986; printed 1992.

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 Broad houses the contemporary art collection of philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The collection is valued at nearly two billion dollars.

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

Martha McDonald performs in the 2014 work The Lost Garden at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.

What Artist Martha McDonald Might Teach Us About a Nation Divided

This fall, a one-woman show staged in one of Washington, D.C.’s most historic buildings will recall the sorrow of the Civil War

Animaris Percipiere, 2005.

The Strange, Giant "Beach Animals" That Are About to Invade America's Shores

Artist Theo Jansen's sculptures first became hits on YouTube. Now they've reached the shores of New England

"Brainchild" by Michael Christian

Photos: Wacky, Wild Art From This Year's Burning Man Festival

Feast your eyes on some of this year's wildest art installations

The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse

People Have Always Been Obsessed with the End of the World

Since ancient times, art and fiction love to play in the fertile ground of the apocalypse, but it hasn't always been healthy

Comedy Group Wants To Build a Wall To Keep Burners out of the Bay Area

The ban would apply to people armed with glowsticks and art cars alike.

Confused Construction Workers Tore Down an Ancient Tomb and Replaced it With a Picnic Table

Is the tomb's picnic table-like appearance to blame?

Molted glass during the 3D printing process, screenshot from "Glass" on Vimeo

3D Printing Molten Glass Is Beautiful

The innovation comes out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Meshology" is a collaboration between French photographer Dimitri Daniloff and German computer graphics artist Sven Hauth.

Get Tripped Up by These Tricked-Out Photographs

A new photography collaboration aims for an unbearable lightness

Images of the rock art after the team’s analysis show a collection of animal- and human-like figures and no dragon or pterodactyl

Utah's Winged Monster Rock Painting Isn’t A Monster at All

The picture shows a collection of figures, none of which have wings

The RedBall Project during a visit to Paris in 2014.

A 15-Foot-Tall, 250-Pound Inflatable Ball Got Loose in Toledo, Ohio

Sounds like the inspiration for a Pixar movie.

Weston-super-mare, United Kingdom. 18th August 2015 -- A structure of a sinister fairy castle can be seen in Weston-super-Mare. High security has been put in place. Image courtesy of Martyn East on Instagram. -- Fans of street artist Bansky expect whispers of a secret sinister pop-up exhibition called 'Dismaland' in seaside town to be true. A fairy castle structure, like a sinister twist on Disneyland, can be seen by locals from Weston-super-mare beach.

Banksy May Be Opening A Dystopian Disneyland Park

The elusive street artist’s take on Disneyland is chock-full of dystopia

A Scottish Duke Transformed This Abandoned Coal Mine into a Cosmological Land-Art Park

A scarred landscape in rural Scotland has become a grassy multiverse now open for exploration

A painting of a bird from the 1633 Manual of Calligraphy and Painting.

The World's Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read...Until Now

The 1633 book has now been digitized

Screenshot from the short "Chad Gadya"

This Animation Is Made of Embroidery

It took a year and a half to create a short film using "embroidermation"

A curious visitor walking toward the Bobur artwork at the tenth Archstoyanie festival.

At "Russia's Burning Man," Strange Structures Transform Villages

The beautiful, bizarre structures of the Archstoyanie festival are made of natural materials and help bring economic prosperity to small villages

Humans Evolved to Be Moved by Art

New research shows that while people respond to art for very different reasons, the ability to be moved in the first place is universal

Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert" was one of the most valuable paintings stolen from the Gardener Museum

Could This Video Solve One of History's Greatest Art Mysteries?

Footage shows an unknown man entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum the night before the infamous robbery

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