In 1819, everyone, it seemed, was mesmerized by the intricate patterns produced by the optical instrument. | Continue reading
The agricultural corporation invited the artist to visit the islands and create images of their fruit product, but they didn’t get quite what they’d expected. | Continue reading
Diego Rivera established himself as one of the 20th century’s most ambitious, boundary-pushing painters. | Continue reading
The unveiling of “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” nearly 60 years in the making, coincides with rising prices for the couple’s work. | Continue reading
In our age of fragile masculinity, Elizabethan paintings showing men in the throes of a melancholic “English malady” find new relevance. | Continue reading
Something strange happens when we see a creature that is almost—but not quite—human. Here’s how artists have delighted in what’s known as the “uncanny valley.” | Continue reading
In the interviews he gave, Jean-Michel Basquiat offered profound glimpses into his artistic development and drive. We share some of his most inspiring words. | Continue reading
Before achieving art stardom, Takashi Murakami was making drab, traditional paintings, aspired to be an animator, and dreamt of moving to New York. | Continue reading
On the outskirts of Chartres in the mid-1900s, self-taught artist Raymond Isidore covered nearly every surface of his small home with glittering mosaics. | Continue reading
There is also a 42-foot-tall gold-coated sculpture of Athena inside. | Continue reading
Tehching Hsieh tied himself to a fellow artist, forced himself to live homeless in New York for one year, and threw himself out of a building onto concrete. | Continue reading
The artist and the Apple Computer co-founder crossed paths in 1984, at a nine-year-old’s birthday party. | Continue reading
The rules of this collaborative art exercise are simple: Grab some friends and a single piece of paper, and create something beyond your wildest dreams. | Continue reading
Tennis balls didn’t get their distinctive neon hue until nearly a century after the game was invented. | Continue reading
The sculpture was expected to fetch up to $1.2 million. | Continue reading
Formidable women across centuries and continents have wielded influence through their impassioned support of art and culture. | Continue reading
Leisurely hobbies can make us more creative, happy, calm, and empathetic. But how can we find time for them? And feel comfortable with making mediocre art? | Continue reading
The founders of the 1960s movement Metabolism looked to biology to transform cities—but their vision was never fully realized. | Continue reading
In 2005, a Japanese company was having trouble deciding which auction house to sell its art collection with, so it put the decision in the auctioneers’ hands. | Continue reading
Launched in 2015, the DSCOVR satellite is the first earth science mission distant enough from our planet to capture its entire sunlit surface in a single photograph. | Continue reading
Patton Hindle, senior director of arts at Kickstarter, argues for backing artists’ projects from the earliest stages of research and development. | Continue reading
Poncili Creación, a madcap project helmed by two Puerto Rican identical twins, is bringing fun, anarchy, and a whole lot of foam to the performance sphere. | Continue reading
The four oil-on-photo scraps were failed ideas the size of postcards, but a judge ruled that they could be worth €60,000. | Continue reading
Zany, early creative communities like DeviantArt and conceptart.org have been steamrolled by homogenous social media platforms. | Continue reading
While growth slowed from 2017, the report predicted the online art market would expand significantly in the next five years. | Continue reading
From 1970s illustrations of space colonies to contemporary depictions of exoplanets, NASA’s art visualizes futuristic and farflung landscapes. | Continue reading
Pencils weren’t always yellow. We have the marketing genius of a 19th-century Czech manufacturer to thank for their now-ubiquitous hue. | Continue reading
The Airbnb cofounder looks back on formative lessons he learned as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. | Continue reading
It seems that the art world’s biggest prankster concocted a scheme in which his work would get destroyed as soon as it was sold. | Continue reading
Paul Jordan-Smith intended to mock the burgeoning avant-garde art movement. He ended up becoming its star. | Continue reading
Artworks created by Artificial Intelligence are selling, raising questions about ethics, authorship, and automation | Continue reading
Since the 1960s, industrial giants such as IBM, Bell Labs, and Hewlett-Packard have brought artists into their fold. | Continue reading
In 1903, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge created a kitsch masterpiece. The art world might not have taken these gambling dogs seriously, but the public adored them. | Continue reading