Art

The world-famous painter of petals and bones spent the early 1960s casually and quietly fortifying her home for the end of the world.

This Wind Wall by Ned Kahn in Clayton, Missouri has 93,000 individual aluminum flags that flap in the wind.

Last year, artist Gomi Kuzu Tarou submitted a Pikachu painting to a contest for a chance to be turned into a Pocket Monster card. The art was freaky! Now Gomi Kuzu Tarou, is back with another submission.

The largest outdoor screen in Korea appears like a giant aquarium with a wave pool but is in fact an anamorphic illusion.

The Rijksmuseum is publishing the largest and most detailed ever photograph of "The Night Watch" on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting.

Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the sister-in-law of Vincent Van Gogh, believed the artist's work deserved to be widely seen and was instrumental to his fame.

The class offered three things I'd been desperately missing: drawing, being connected to other human beings and thinking about the body as something to embrace and take joy from.

In 1870, the Prussian army laid siege to the French capital. For the first time in its existence, the Louvre not only shut down, but also sent its paintings into exile.

Rendered on vintage ledgers and graph paper, each geometric shape relies on the density of the artist's pen markings to create works that appear to stand straight up off the page.

Even tattoo artists get bored of work.

This computer illustrator uses the Blender software to create a simulated environment with just one photograph of a metro station.

John Kerschbaum captured the scale of the museum's awe-inspiring hugeness with flattened cartoon scale and perspective, and the result is incredibly impressive.

The mysterious behavior of the young dealer crosses three continents, cost tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars and left some of the world's most savvy collectors scratching their heads and very badly out of pocket.

Meanwhile, the original print, now just a piece of paper with 88 holes and Hirst's signature, is up for auction for a minimum of $126,500.

Randy Tuten's eclectic posters featured a sinking Titanic framed by turn-of-the-century revival-meeting lettering one week, a googly-eyed avocado the next.

Even though Pixar's bent was to humanize non-human characters, the premise of "Ratatouille" was based on something inherently disgusting: what if a rat made your dinner?

From "Spinal Tap" to TV shows like "The Office" and "Parks and Rec," we look at how one of TV's best comedy genres was born.

Jerry Saltz's new book markets an instagram-friendly version of creativity.

Is there anything AI can't do?

William Shakespeare was born this month in 1564, but the playwright's influence is unquestionable and his fingerprints are still all over modern film, literature and television.

If you've reached the point in your stay-at-home life where re-watching every season of The Real Housewives of New York feels more like a punishment than a treat, it's time to stream some Shakespeare.

An extremely dedicated Super Mario Bros. fan paid tribute to the 35th anniversary to the game by spending a week arranging and rearranging 500 Rubik's Cubes to make a delightful stop motion short.

Isolating individuals in photographs can make for an interesting image, but an entire portfolio of these images contains a statement, whether intentional or otherwise.

Around the world, people are posing as famous portraits with toilet paper, bedsheets, drawn-on unibrows, and did we mention toilet paper?

Tight floor plans, "sanity" walks and the people you miss seeing: they turned up in your homemade maps of life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Seeing a raccoon washing its paws in the rivers of Saint Petersburg or an octopus tumbling out of a city bus would be a startling sight for most city dwellers.

New Yorkers have a special relationship with trash, which is as much a fixture of the cityscape as the Manhattan skyline. Not to wax romantic about littering, but some of that, shall we say, "street ephemera" — the lost tickets, photos, business cards — can give us the most honest, intimate window into the city's stories.

Well, we wanted to paint the room a soft beige, but we guess we'll settle for chaotic neutral.

For the Spring issue, we asked the six fiction writers to select a single sentence that marked the moment they first knew what story they were writing.

What do the criminals do with The "Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring," and how could they get caught?

This is genius. This is horrifying.

Even in the best of times, theater is the most fragile of the popular arts. Theater requires us sitting in the seats in order to be complete. It's an unequal love affair: we want theater but theater needs us. And in this pandemic, it is simply gone.

The big top came to Peru, Indiana in the late 19th century. It never left.

Sound and color are married together in this perfect performance by artist Kenichi Kanazawa.

Together, Hilla and Bernd Becher documented the disappearing markers of industry across Europe and North America, including factory buildings, gas tanks and silos.

Stephen Shore, Catherine Opie, Todd Hido and others have turned to Instagram to cure "corona claustrophobia" or show how life has changed. They talk about their quarantine pics.

Dav Pilkey — author and illustrator of the "Captain Underpants" and "Dog Man" book series — is also stuck at home. So he's teaming up with the Library of Congress to read to our kids and help them learn to draw some of his most beloved characters.

In a recent episode of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow," Kanye West's cousin's husband brought in a trove of works the rapper made as a teen. The appraiser gave a very interesting analysis of the art.

A new collection of Soviet space design is more relevant than ever.

Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he's in another era. He shares his West Village railroad apartment with mementos and Queenie. Most days during quarantine, he wears one of his many silk bathrobes.

The creators of the Whitney Museum's New York Apartment explain how they combined thousands of listings into a website for one massive, $43.9 billion dwelling.

There's never been a better time to master the fine art of the naked selfie.

Striking posters — taken from the 1920s to the present day — chart the country's emergence as an economic powerhouse.

From the '60s to modern day, check out a Photorealism art archive curated by Google.

During these trying times, this comic from xkcd creator Randall Munroe might give you a good chuckle.

The neighbors' trumpet never sounded so good.

On Monday, a Dutch museum announced that a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was missing after thieves broke into the building in an early-morning raid. Lentetuin, painted by Van Gogh in the spring of 1884, was on loan to the Singer Laren museum, which closed its doors earlier this month due to the risks of COVID-19.

Our reviewers select standout moments in their field which still shape their love of the arts.

Neal Agarwal's "Auction Game" is like "The Price Is Right," but way, way harder.

Self-taught photographer William Eggleston's vivid images of mundane scenes arrived at MoMA at a time when the only photographs considered to be art were in black and white.

The sculpture was loathed as a public-art installation. Now its 4,000 aluminum birds are treasured in private collections.

McNally's much-awarded work spans the last five decades of American drama, but for some of us, it also spans our lives in the theater.

This week, actor Michael Gaston started #readasonnet, challenging his friends and colleagues directly to share sonnets with the world.

The 20th-century American artist - known for his scenes of derelict urban life and social alienation - is going viral

Kerry Washington on Beyoncé, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kendrick Lamar, Oprah Winfrey on Toni Morrison, Issa Rae on "Scandal," and 31 other prominent black artists on the work that inspires them most.

Look, I may have accidentally summoned some demons from the pixel art underworld. I don't know what is happening to these little creatures, but it sure doesn't look good.

Temporary closures are forcing businesses to look to community support. Here's how you can hel risk-free.

Using GANILLA (Generative Adversarial Networks for Image to Illustration Translation) computers are able to mimic, modify and create art based on the source you give it.

The Iron Curtain went to infinity and beyond.

For a few years, Inigo Philbrick and I were inseparable. And then it turned out he was running a con.