Art
You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues
Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they'll call you with a quick first-person history lesson
Women of the Early 1900s Rallied Behind Beautiful, Wartless Witches
Women looking to work, vote and marry whomever they wanted turned the Halloween icon into a powerful symbol
Quarrying for Marble Looks Unreal
A film excerpt follows the boss at an open-pit marble quarry in Carrara, Italy
Lego Jewelry Transforms the Childhood Toy to High Fashion Art
Artist emiko oye turns colorful children’s blocks into items that are ready to wear, not play
A World Of His Own: The Art of James Castle
Born profoundly deaf, the self-taught artist's body of work depicts his unique relationship to the world around him
Arts Degrees: Not Entirely Worthless
Recent graduates of arts degrees report high job satisfaction and employment numbers
This Comedy Club Charges By the Laugh
In Barcelona, a comedy club is keeping tabs on its patrons' laughs with facial recognition technology
Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old
Cave paintings of animals and hand stencils in Sulawesi, Indonesia, seem to be as old as similar cave art in Europe
Peering into the Secret Diaries of American Artists
A new Archives of American Art exhibition looks at how artists documented their lives before social media
What Will We Leave in the Fossil Record?
Artist Erik Hagen considers the remnants of modern human life that may be found in rock strata millions of years from now
How the Artist Behind the Giant Landscape Portrait on the Mall Used a Super-Precise GPS Satellite System as a Paintbrush
To create the National Portrait Gallery's "facescape," artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada got some high-tech help
This Artist Finds Strange Beauty in Google's Apocalyptic Glitches
Clement Valla makes art out of Google Earth's surrealist irregularities
A New Search Engine For Metaphors
Yossarian offers a new way of searching for inspiration online
<em>Paris Match</em> Opens its Archives and Shares a Trove of Images of Artists in Their Studios
A traveling exhibition, curated by Picasso's grandson, reveals an intimate look at the places where artists craft their works
Six Artists In Search of Themselves
With drama, theater, magical realism and a twist of the absurd, these artists give the self-portrait a makeover
Secretive Victorian Artists Made These Intricate Patterns Out of Algae
A new documentary profiles Klaus Kemp, the sole practicioner of a quirky art form that is invisible to the naked eye
Why is Ai Weiwei Breaking Into Alcatraz?
China's most controversial artist selected America's most notorious prison as the home for his new show
Impressionism Into Modernism: Crafting America's Unique Style of Art
After the Civil War, Americans became more interested in European art—and creating a kind of art completely their own
Long Before Emojis, the Picassos of Persian Calligraphy Brought Emotion to Writing
The world's first exhibition devoted to <em>nasta’liq</em>, a Persian calligraphy, is now on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Capturing First Impressions of a City in Transition
William Greiner's photographs are on view at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA
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