Articles tagged as Artists | Smithsonian Magazine

Visitors to the American Gothic House Center are encouraged to play the part of the famous pair from the painting.

Grab Your Pitchfork and Take an “American Gothic”-Themed Road Trip

A drive through eastern Iowa is the best way to appreciate one of the country’s most famous images

April 28, 2016

A whiff of formaldehyde makes Damien Hirst's art even more controversial.

Where does art end and hazard begin?

April 21, 2016

At least the scent of despair comes in a pretty bottle.

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This Perfume Smells Like the Apocalypse

Artists bottled blood and thunder to capture the heady scent of the end times

April 18, 2016

To Truly Experience Robert Irwin, You Simply Must View His Artworks in Person

Part visionary, part magician, Irwin makes art that breaks all the rules

April 8, 2016

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This Mural Honoring Garbage Collectors Covers More Than 50 Buildings in Cairo

An enormous painting brightens up one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods

April 6, 2016

Every single one of the 148 million pixels in this portrait was based on Rembrandt's body of work.

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“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death

The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work

April 5, 2016

Super-Natural (2011/2016), Han Seok Hyun. Artist Han Seok Hyun sourced green materials from supermarkets in Boston and his home city of Seoul for this fanciful landscape.

11 Artists Capture What It Is Like to Live in a Megacity

“Megacities Asia,” a new exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, features 19 installations inspired by cities with populations of 10 million or more

April 4, 2016

Avenue of Cherry Trees Yoshida Hiroshi, Showa era, 1935

How Cherry Trees Blossomed Into a Tourist Attraction

The fragile and transient blossom may herald the first stirrings of spring, but their significance has evolved since the 9th century

March 28, 2016

Independence Day Celebration by Lauren Good Day Giago, (Arikara/Hidatsa/Blackfeet/Plains Cree), 2012, antique ledger paper, colored pencil, graphite, ink, felt-tipped marker

For These Native American Artists, the Material Is the Message

A new exhibition traces the evolution of Plains tribes’ narrative art from the 18th century up through today’s contemporary works

March 25, 2016

A red pigment reference from the Forbes Pigment Collection helped prove that a supposed Jackson Pollock painting was a fake.

This Could Be the World’s Most Colorful Library

Harvard’s Forbes Pigment Collection preserves some of history’s most precious colors—and helps conserve the world’s greatest art

March 24, 2016

A room decorated with animal art was designed to look like a forest.

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This Polish Museum Exhibit Was Completely Curated By Kids

“Anything Goes” took six months and 69 children to create

March 22, 2016

Say goodbye to the Louvre's iconic pyramid.

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This Summer, the Louvre’s Pyramid Will “Disappear”

A French street artist promises a tantalizing trick of the eye

March 15, 2016

Blu and local activists erased 20 years' worth of his street art from Bologna, Italy.

Blu used a chisel and gray paint to make a point

March 14, 2016

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These Mountains Are Made of Books

An interdisciplinary artist creates landscapes out of encyclopedias

March 14, 2016

"Hurlyburly" is artist Orly Genger's latest site-specific art installation using woven lobster rope.

This Massive Installation in an Austin Park Is Made of Over a Million Feet of Recycled Lobster Rope

“Hurlyburly” is artist Orly Genger’s latest woven creation

March 11, 2016

Paul Johnson explores "landthropology" through his nature photography.

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This Designer Makes Animations With Nature

Paul Johnson turns Twin Cities landscapes into hypnotic stop-motion

March 7, 2016

Europe

How Brussels Became a Real-Life Comic Strip

The city’s colorful murals put it in the running for comic book capital of the world

February 29, 2016

In the installation of Smell, The Beauty of Decay: SmellScape Central Park, designed by Sissel Tolaas, visitors touch the wall that has been painted with the special paint, releasing the scent.

Can Smell Be a Work of Art?

Scent artist Sissel Tolaas uses chemistry to explore the malodorous, yet beautiful, scent of decay in Central Park

February 23, 2016

To Mapplethorpe, flowers offered a way to broaden his appeal. Parrot Tulips, 1988

Robert Mapplethorpe Could Make Even Tulips Erotic

LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Museum will be showcasing the photographer’s lesser known flower portraits

March 2016

Family Travel

Learn the Secrets of the World’s Best Snow Sculptors

On the shores of Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva, teams of snow carvers turn chilly columns into masterpieces

February 16, 2016