Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is well-known for his daily sci-fi art output. But recently, his art has morphed into something increasingly political and post-apocalyptic.
Upon the unsealing of a collection of T.S. Eliot's letters to his muse Emily Hale, the poet posthumously released a letter sharing his side of the story.
Irving Ruan and Eugenia Viti offer humorous illustrations of methods a person can use to put themselves ill at ease.
Leap into the Void was unprecedented in photography. While some photographers used "straight" photography to seek emotional truths, Klein harnessed the inherent malleability of the medium's veracity.
These greeting cards from the late 19th and early 20th-century celebrate the New Year with lucky pigs, foxes fleeing for their lives and at least one drunk frog.
When we stumbled upon a work by contemporary artist Kim Beom, we couldn't believe our eyes, or our eardrums.
Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you're free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it's completely legal.
The 27 works, moments and objects that define the best — and worst — of the past decade.
Just ink and colored pencil, it took Anton Thomas almost five years.
On Jan. 1 of this year, works of art first published in the United States in the year 1923 entered the public domain and became available to republish, remix or adapt at will.
In the award-winning "The Hands That Built This City," London-based Polly Tootal shows us the complexity of living in the liminal space through photographs of men who live in labor camps in the UAE.
These illustrations of 花火, Hanabi (fireworks or "fire flowers"), advertised Japan's Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks companies in the late 19th century.
Whatever you're expecting to emerge out of the canvas, it's not that.
Posters for "Ad Astra," "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," and more took our breath away this year.
Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch.
Caroline Eriksson, a sculpture artist from Oslo, Norway built a life-sized gingerbread Groot, the sentient tree-like creature from Guardians of the Galaxy. It's incredible.
How the Safdie brothers re-created — and embellished — a very specific slice of midtown, as told by their collaborators, stars and friends.
The editors of Art in America, Caroline Calloway, and more define the most important art world terms of the 2010s.
There's never been a better time to experiment with what music videos can be. Here are 25 of the greatest from the past year.
Ali Soloman illustrates a humorous set on scenarios where a woman feigns being impressed in conversation.
I received an email from an unfamiliar sender. In the subject line was the title of a story I wrote five years ago. He wanted to know if I was aware of the recent plagiarism scandal involving a young Nigerian author.
The secret to never being arrested, he says, "is hi-vis jackets and traffic cones. Nobody stops you if you have them."
Humble fields become abstracted artworks in thread paintings by Victoria Rose Richards.
A community of feminist crafters grapples with a patriotic quilt that a 99-year-old nurse left behind.
The comedian explains how he looks at abstract art and how he contextualizes it at the Modern Museum of Art.
How the correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick gave rise to a scandal about the ethics of turning life into art.
The work was discovered by a gardener, who at first mistook it for trash.
"There are more writers and artists like you and me than there are like Pablo Neruda and Stephen King."
An unprecedented project is analysing Rembrandt's masterpiece down to individual chemical elements, to give insight into how the Old Master approached his work.
An unprecedented project is analysing Rembrandt's masterpiece down to individual chemical elements, to give insight into how the Old Master approached his work
More and more rich people are buying art and stashing it in strange places. According to infamous scammers, it's not even close to legit.
Their suspicion was that bots were looking on Twitter for phrases like "I want this on a shirt," scraping the quoted images and instantly selling them without permission as print-on-demand t-shirts. They were right!
What's the point of food-art if we can't eat it?
An artist creates the beloved green Star Wars creature from scratch in this cool time lapse.
The Japanese visual artist Atsushi Adachi creates miniature replicas of objects from the past using old newspaper clippings and articles sourced from the same period.
Slave Play doesn't provide easy answers. Instead, it asks the (largely white and affluent) audience to consider its own potentially myopic views on race.
Wanna feel exhausted? All of this happened within the last year.
Inside an expensive, poorly planned, pluckily optimistic effort to sell an unwieldy art installation in Miami.
Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo "enhanced interrogation" portray his account of what happened to him in vivid and disturbing ways.
Also a six-minute song whose only lyric is "Ah." Welcome to the opera!
Superchief's edgy sensibility had always generated hype, but over the preceding few years, its hard-partying brand had spread its wings. Beneath the surface, though, things aren't so pretty.
A young man with a reddish beard and tailored jacket sat on the aisle at Christie's New York November 2011 evening sale and calmly underbid four works from the single owner sale of software mogul Peter Norton.
The movement fused film, art, photography and graphic design to create a radical new style of communication.
Just look at it. Wouldn't you?
The first items to pull Tom Kiefer's attention were 15 to 20 toothbrushes. At the time, he didn't think about photographing them. He just felt compelled to remove them from the trash.
Women with power have the capacity to silence women with less — and they wield it. Why can't they see that?
The head of a major Italian museum says a bronze owned by a friend was made in 1597 by a revered sculptor, but others say it was cast a century later and is worth far less.
The ultimate beer-pong flex.
What an incredible show.
German police say it's the largest art heist in postwar history.
From Donald Glover to Lena Waithe, here are the top actors, writers, directors and more that defined TV and films these past 10 years.
Behind its handsome 19th century facade on the Rue de Rivoli, the reality of the "other Louvre" is that today, only one strong-willed shopkeeper is still holding court.
A collective called Transformations of the Human are helping big tech and AI labs to hire philosophers and artists.
Every detail of Edward Hopper's "Western Motel" has been brought to life at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where you can spend the night.
The brothers open up about their new film "21 Bridges" and the ongoing battle between Martin Scorsese and Marvel.
Will algorithms destroy the cultural diversity of what qualifies as pretty?
A lovely countercultural invitation to savor the unpurchasable joys with which the world is strewn.
On top of the usual audio horror stories queued up for the month of October, there were stories of love, whimsy, daring, and all the forms they take.
Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can't be overcome with good design.
