Photography
The Moment That Defines Famed American Composer Leonard Bernstein
The National Portrait Gallery showcases a celebrated conductor as portrayed by the master French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
These Images From 1968 Capture an America in Violent Flux
A one-room show at the National Portrait Gallery is a hauntingly relevant 50-year-old time capsule
This Initiative Is Loaning Artwork Back to the Communities They're Most Associated With
Britain's National Portrait Gallery's 'Coming Home' initiative will loan portraits to the towns and cities most closely associated with their subjects
A Photographer Captures Contrasts and Characters in Barcelona's Streets
Josep Fabrega Agea, a retired teacher and psychosociologist, points his lens at the city's dark corners and poetic places
A Photographer Documents the Effects of Climate Change on Maine's Intertidal Zones
A marine biology student at Northeastern University captures the vulnerable organisms that have to survive high and low tide
Library of Congress Puts Spotlight on 440 Snapshots Culled From Archive of 14 Million
About 300 of the images have been newly digitized, and 200 of these are free for public use
Unprecedented Billboard Campaign Puts Spotlight on Indigenous Artists in Canada
“Resilience” features artwork by 50 indigenous women supersized on billboards throughout Canada—from British Columbia's coast to Newfoundland's eastern tip
Scientific Images Make Dazzling Art In a Duke University Exhibit
Three graduate students set out to show that the scientific and artistic processes are more similar than many imagine
Thousands of Unseen Photos Featuring Andy Warhol and Celebrity Pals to Be Digitized
The trove of the pop artist’s personal snapshots includes 130,000 frames, which will also be featured in an upcoming show and monograph
Particle Accelerator Reveals Hidden Faces in Damaged 19th-Century Daguerreotype Portraits
Using an experimental X-ray fluorescence process, researchers mapped contours of the plates and produced digital copies of images previously lost to time
Rare Photographs Put Focus on Egyptians Who Worked Alongside Carter to Excavate Tutankhamun's Tomb
Harry Burton’s 3,400 snapshots document rich array of artifacts, unseen Egyptians who contributed to the Egyptologist Howard Carter's great discovery
Stock Photo Agencies Agree to Pull ‘Unnatural’ Images of Primates
PETA had lobbied against images that perpetuate harmful misconceptions about the animals
David Goldblatt, the South African Photographer Who Documented Life Under Apartheid, Has Died at 87
He did not rush to the frontlines of violent events, but instead photographed everyday scenes of racial discrimination
Pushed to the Margins, These Brave People Are Pushing Back
From the American West to the Middle East, the powerless face stark choices when confronted by the powerful
How Daguerreotype Photography Reflected a Changing America
The National Portrait Gallery brings the eerie power of a historic medium into focus
Why Artists Have so Much Trouble Painting Lightning
A new study compares painted versus photographed depictions of lightning bolts' offshooting branches
The Archives of Historic Black Newspapers Are Going Digital
The Obsidian Collection is collaborating with Google Arts & Culture to ensure the journalism is preserved for many years to come
Exhibition to Bring Winslow Homer’s Long-Lost Camera—and Photography—Into Focus
After four years of research, the new medium's impact on Homer's art will be explored this summer at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Future of Art
A new generation of artists is merging innovation with tradition to tell the important stories of our time
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