In Brief
Giant Sculpture of Monk's Head Freaks Out Thai Buddhists
Under construction outside the Baan Pho temple in Chacheongsao, east of Bangkok, this new monument will be the biggest of the many Luang Pu Thuat sculptures, at 55 feet tall (~16.8m).
Carey Dunne
In Brief
Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the 'Aeneid'
In Rome, around the year 400, a scribe and three painters created an illuminated manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, illustrating the the ancient hero Aeneas’ journey from Troy to Italy.
Art
The Wild, Handmade Guitars of a Man on a Mission from God
One evening in 1979, Ed Stilley, a preacher and homesteader in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas, found himself feeling he had “no way out” after a deeply troubled period in his life.
Books
The Bristol Milkman Who Drew the Architecture of WWII-Era Britain
Garth England was born in Bristol General Hospital in 1935, four years before World War II broke out. He worked for most of his life as a paperboy, a telegram boy, milkman, and railwayman. In his later years, he was also a secret artist.
In Brief
New Online Museum Gathers All of Prince’s Websites in 1 Place
What if, instead of being a hellhole filled with trolls and bad news, the internet offered "the definitive place of gathering 4 all who love life, love God, lovesexy ... a new collective mindstate of unity, love and truth so great every human will want 2 join?"
Art
Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Rebooted as an 8-Bit Music Video
Since John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in 1667, many artists have attempted to visualize the biblical epic.
Art
Splendid-Necked Dung Beetles Like You've Never Seen Them Before
Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before.
Opinion
Looking for Love on Wydr, the "Tinder for Buying Art"
I wasn’t looking for a real relationship with a work of art.
Interview
On Photographing Drag Queens in Their Wonderland
Growing up in London, photographer Magnus Hastings was an "all-singing, all-dancing child," as he puts it, who loved to wear his sister's clothes.
In Brief
5th-Century Biblical Mosaics Found in Ancient Synagogue
Animals marching onto Noah's Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, Israel
Art
A Mesmerizing Animation of Kung Fu Movements
From 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge to Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni, artists throughout history have attempted to capture the complexities of athletic human motion in their work.
News
Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View
“Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling,” scribbled painter Lucian Freud in one of the sketchbooks now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.