An exhibition depicts how people have reimagined the medieval period in the centuries since, and how they have revealed their own interests and ideals with each new interpretation. | Continue reading
Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles. | Continue reading
The couple launched the Futureverse Foundation, a grantmaking organization that aims to “help keep the metaverse widely accessible.” | Continue reading
Bosch was the inventor of the modern Western imagining of the demonic while transcending that tradition — all because of bad weather and moldy bread. | Continue reading
It’s been an age-old trope in literature and film but now brain scans suggest it’s true. | Continue reading
The oldest mass-printed cookbook, 500-year-old recipes from a pope's private chef, and varied displays of chocolate molds will go on view in May. | Continue reading
Discovered in 2018, the 1,300-year-old frieze constitutes one of the largest examples of Zapotec writing found in the Oaxaca Valley. | Continue reading
Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process? | Continue reading
What's the difference between hackers and artists anyway? | Continue reading
A lavishly illustrated, fascinating book explores the resurgence of Venetian glass and the ways it influenced American ideas about taste and beauty. | Continue reading
The spectacle can be found on every screen that you look at. It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser. | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before. | Continue reading
Braque's paintings speak of self-containment, of a quietly impassioned, ongoing dedication to the task at hand. | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Asian Art Museum is only the latest step in a long journey to chart the development of Korean identity through art. | Continue reading
A hacked 3D scan of the famous sculpture shows how traditional models of heritage ownership might change in museums. | Continue reading
Conservators at Dresden's Old Masters Picture Gallery have uncovered a full-length cupid in Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" — likely painted over by someone other than the artist. | Continue reading
Decolonizing the archive includes mobilizing students like mine to bethe decolonizers. | Continue reading
Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth. | Continue reading
Art critic Seph Rodney considers on his reviews during the last few years and what he may have gotten wrong and why. | Continue reading
Both Edward Jenner's inoculation methods and the illustrations he made of those he treated were groundbreaking. | Continue reading
Researchers reproduced the acoustics of a defunct chapel at Linlithgow Palace during an Easter Mass performance. | Continue reading
The vibrant pigment, created accidentally in 2009 by chemists at Oregon State University, is now commercially available. | Continue reading
Revised and expanded, The Art of Pixar gathers color scripts from the studio’s short and feature films, mapping out the emotional beats of each story in lush hues. | Continue reading
Photographer Kyle Cassidy released one of his images into the public domain. Years later, someone else took credit for it. | Continue reading
Late at night in Great Britain's National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, some of the world's oldest computers awoke from mechanical slumber. | Continue reading
Barbara Guest stands apart as a radical traditionalist, committed to poetry’s clairvoyant, mythical potentials. | Continue reading
After Azerbaijan declared victory following six weeks of brutal conflict, the state has gained control of the Armenian-governed area of Artsakh, increasing fear of erasure of the millennia-old Armenian monuments in the area. | Continue reading
This essay is an account of truly learning to see what is and is not present in these objects. | Continue reading
In one scene, the blockbuster superhero movie touches on issues of provenance, repatriation, diversity, representation, and other debates currently shaping institutional practices. | Continue reading
The beauty and power of Valéry's best writing is undeniable, and the human dilemmas his work addresses remain with us. | Continue reading
The CIA’s abstract art collection isn’t as “secret” as a series of articles made it seem––but it’s more politically significant than it appears, and there are still unanswered questions. Here, exclusive photographs of the collection are published for the first time. | Continue reading
Over a century later, the voices of those taking refuge in the tomb-like beds of a Victorian homeless shelter are difficult to resuscitate, their experiences only echoed in the recordings of outsiders. | Continue reading
For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life. | Continue reading
An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily. | Continue reading
Arthur Danto’s best-known essay, "The End of Art," continues to be cited more than it is understood. What was Danto’s argument? Is art really over? And if so, what are the implications for art history and art-making? | Continue reading
On social media, Fauci is being celebrated with admiring portraits, from cartoons to sock puppets bearing his image. | Continue reading
Little of the information presented in Envisioning 2001 will be new to Kubrick diehards, but it gathers artifacts that offer a thrill for anyone who has ever been affected by the movie. | Continue reading
I haven’t played the game Death Stranding, but I know one thing: The score, composed by Ludvig Forssell for prepared piano, synthesizer, and found percussion, is beautiful. | Continue reading
The free images, uploaded courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, include animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and scientific research. | Continue reading
“3D is an amazing tool to simulate what people who lived 2,500 years ago might have experienced while walking around Athens,” says photographer and animator Dimitris Tsalkanis. | Continue reading
“It’s not cowboy art, it’s not parlor art, it is a nuanced view of the American landscape," said one artist at the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, where collectors gather see art that connects them to a person, a memory, or a community they value. | Continue reading
The 1,000-year-old skeleton of Saint Aurelius, dressed in 18th-century finery, gets an elaborate makeover at the Center for Art Conservation and Restoration of the Catholic University of Portugal. | Continue reading
Philip Buehler’s photographs are neither a nostalgia fest nor disaster porn, but an unsparing documentation of the decay that marks time and cultural change. | Continue reading
Starting today anyone can legally remix and republish classics that include Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Gift of Black Folk, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. | Continue reading
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America. | Continue reading
The work was intended as a public appeal to politicians to make a more stringent and immediate response to regulate the effects of human industry and waste on the environment. | Continue reading
The image tagging system that went viral on social media was part of artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate Crawford's attempts to publicize how prejudiced technology can be. | Continue reading
The speed with which the Hong Kong demonstrators' informative zines have been distributed, collected, and even exhibited internationally is remarkable. We spoke with ZineCoop, one of the groups behind the effort, to discuss why they are so powerful. | Continue reading