Art
The Stark Beauty of Japan's Soaring Cormorant Population
Japan has a problem with cormorant overpopulation.
Carey Dunne
In Brief
A Sculptor Imagines a Human Designed to Survive Car Crashes
Yesterday, I met Graham. I met him on MeetGraham.com.au. I met his half-formed teats, all 13 of them, and his thick, tough skin, and his knee joints that rotate 360 degrees, like a demon’s.
Art
An Intricately Illustrated 19th-Century Study of Global Fashions
In 1876, French scholar and artist Auguste Racinet published Le Costume historique (The Costume History), an illustrated sartorial tour throughout world history.
Art
All in the Smooth, White, Vacant-Eyed Family of Contemporary Figurative Sculpture
PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there lived a family of sculptures. They were all smooth, white, and vacant-eyed.
Art
Algorithm Clones Artists’ Styles, Turning Videos into Living Paintings
Have you ever wished you could watch Pixar’s Ice Age rendered in the post-Impressionist painting style of Vincent van Gogh, or Star Wars in the expressionistic style of Edvard Munch’s The Scream?
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Caribbean Cave Art Illustrates Indigenous People's Early Encounters With Europeans
In the subterranean network of caves on Mona Island, 41 miles west of Puerto Rico, archaeologists have discovered a series of engravings by both indigenous people and the early European colonizers.
Art
The Best Art Books to Read for Free on the NYPL's New eBook App
The New York Public Library just released a iPhone and Android app that lets anyone with a library card freely download any of the 300,000 eBooks in its collection.
In Brief
"He Wanted to Give Her This Gift of Flesh": Recipient of van Gogh's Ear Identified
Shortly before Christmas, 1888, as the story goes, while living in Arles, France, and suffering from a deep depression, Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear with a razor blade, wrapped the severed ear in cloth, walked to a nearby brothel, and handed it to a woman working there.
In Brief
In Response to the RNC, Artists and Activists Go Wall Out Against Trump
In the wake of Donald J. Trump's official coronation as the Republican presidential nominee for 2016, the art of wall building is reaching new heights.
Art
Browsing the Pages of an Avant-Garde, Weimar-Era Magazine
Der Sturm, the title of the arts magazine that served as the mouthpiece for German Expressionism during the Weimar Republic, translates to “the storm.”
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Students Invent Way to Light-Paint in 3D
Two-dimensional light painting is so passé.
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Liberal Artists Don't Need Orgasms, and Other Findings from OkCupid
Could your Neil Gaiman book collection reveal something about both your political leanings and your willingness to squeal like a dolphin during sex if your partner asked?