Art
America's Oldest Museum of Black Culture Started in a Living Room
The DuSable Museum of African American History was founded by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, born on this day in 1915
Roman Mosaic, Long Used as a Coffee Table, Returned To Italy
The mosaic hails from a “pleasure ship” built by the notorious emperor Caligula
Linda Nochlin, Pioneering Feminist Art Historian, Has Died
Nochlin is best known for a 1971 essay theorizing that social institutions—and not a lack of talent—held women back in the art world
Where Do New Ideas Come From?
With close study, the genealogies of even the most original ideas can be traced
How New Printing Technology Gave Witches Their Familiar Silhouette
Popular media helped give witches their image
The Comic Artists Who Inspired Roy Lichtenstein Aren't Too Thrilled About It
Lichtenstein's use of comic art and styles made him one of America's most famous pop artists, but some have comic artists have a bad taste in their mouths
Hidden in a Basement for 70 Years, Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light on Jewish Life and Culture Before WWII
The 170,000 pages found might be “the most important collection of Jewish archives since the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
How Kara Walker Boldly Rewrote Civil War History
The artist gives 150-year-old illustrations a provocative update at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
This Artist Is Crowdsourcing "Singing" Sand From Around the World
Amsterdam-based artist Lotte Geeven is making sand symphonies for a public artwork debuting next spring
This Gallery Is Dedicated to Coal Miners' Art
The Mining Art Gallery showcases works created by the thousands of miners who've lived and worked in the Great Northern Coalfield
A Fresh Look for Smithsonian's Oldest Art Museum
The Freer's renovation comes with a new thematic presentation of Asian Art—and the Peacock Room is reopened, as well
What a Pair of Empty Blackboards Can Teach Us About Art and Social Change
Can art alter the course of history? Should artists even try? Joseph Beuys said yes and yes
These Collegiate Innovators Are at the Vanguard of Technology and Art
A massive three-day festival spotlights the achievements of the Atlantic Coast Conference
How This Vienna Suburb Became the Center of the "Raw Art" Movement
Once a psychiatric clinic, the Art Brut Center Gugging now serves as a museum exhibiting the works of some of the world’s best self-taught artists
Smithsonian Curator Talks Barack and Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait Selection
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald will become the first black artists commissioned to paint a presidential couple for the Smithsonian
Home Is Where the Corpse Is—at Least in These Dollhouse Crime Scenes
Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies" exemplify the intersection of forensic science and craft
Everything in This Museum Is Fake
This Vienna art museum pays homage to the art of forgery
App Aims to be the "Shazam" of the Art Museum
With a database of 30 museums worldwide and growing, Smartify can use your phone camera to identify and explain works of art
Why the Ancient Egyptians Loved Their Kitties
A show opening at the Sackler dramatizes the various meanings that the people of Egypt once associated with cats
Check Out These Massive Straw Art Sculptures on Japan's Honshu Island
Art students are giving leftover rice wara a second life
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