Art
Microsoft’s New Emotion-Detecting App Deems the Mona Lisa 43% Happy
Microsoft's Project Oxford photo research division has just released a new demo of a tool that detects emotions in photographed faces using machine-learning techniques.
Carey Dunne
Interview
On Transforming All 613 Jewish Commandments into Dazzling Paintings
In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would transform each of the 613 Jewish mitzvahs into its own vibrant painting.
Art
An Artist's Mission to Photograph Every House in Poland in the 1980s
In 1978, artist Zofia Rydet set out on a mission she knew was impossible: she wanted to photograph every house in her native country of Poland.
Interview
"Leave No Joke Un-Joked": An Interview with 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists, a new documentary by Leah Wolchok, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of the magazine’s 90-year-old cartooning department.
Art
Peter Doig Paints Portals to Mythic Dimensions
The settings and characters in Peter Doig’s newest paintings, now on view at Michael Werner Gallery, are at once strange and somehow totally familiar, like scenes from myths or dreams.
In Brief
A Portrait-Painting Robot with Its Own Artistic Style
In the coming robot world takeover, the art world won’t be spared.
Art
The LSD-Inspired Photographs of a Salvador Dalí Protégé
For three months in 1964, a couple of years before Timothy Leary advised the masses to “turn on, tune in, drop out,” California-born artist Steven Arnold lived on the small island of Formentera, off the coast of Spain.
Art
An NYPD Sketch Artist Gets a Gallery Show
If you live in New York City, you’ve probably seen Detective Jason Harvey’s detailed graphite sketches, whether or not you know it.
In Brief
Graphic Condoms Let You Make Love to Works of Art
What if putting on a condom felt like banging a Monet?
Art
A Sobering 360-Degree Video Visualization of Climate Change Data
Unless you’re living under a global warming-denying rock, you’ve probably heard lots of apocalyptic data related to climate change.
Art
A Bill Murray Art Exhibit as Odd and Inscrutable as the Actor Himself
On view at BALTIC center for contemporary art in Gateshead, UK, BILL MURRAY: a story of distance, size and sincerity explores what British artist Brian Griffiths calls the actor’s “Murray-ness.”
Art
A Photographer Documents the Medication Generation
While teaching a photography workshop to American students in Paris in 2008, French photojournalist Baptiste Lignel was shocked to learn that roughly half of the students in his class were taking some kind of prescription psychiatric medication.