A new exhibition at Manhattan’s Center for Italian Modern Art looks at the cross-pollination between avant-garde art and commercial posters in post-WWII Italy.

A new study details the creation of a hyper-flexible material inspired by an unexpected source: the humble sea cucumber.

Tomohito Ushiro's design features billions of shifting lighting patterns and encourages people to use the restroom without "feeling stress."

At least we won’t have to look at it on Earth.

Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond highlights a group of artists who found acclaim and patronage only to fall back into obscurity.

The steel spike clad in gold and silver commemorated the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Specialists inflated the protest artwork as part of conservation testing at the Museum of London.

In their MLK Day performance inspired by LaToya Ruby Frazier's photo series, Sister Tour explored the relationship between Black women and water.

Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens offers a collection of collections, a satisfying glimpse into the age-old practice.

Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees. 

Photographed for her iconic 1997 Vanity Fair spread, the dress is now up for auction at Sotheby’s.

The loo in question is a former Victorian lavatory that could become one of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition spaces.

Projectile points recently found at the Cooper’s Ferry archeological site in Idaho predate similar findings by thousands of years.

Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Haik Demirjian imagine “Mustaqbaaaahpolis” as a city free from “extraction, time scarcity, and exploitation.”

Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes.

The Museum of Sex, based in New York, has revealed plans for an expansion to Florida in 2023.

An exhibition on view at Detroit’s Henry Ford Museum features 7,000 Christmas ornaments, from the traditionally festive to the deeply bizarre.

The post has accrued more than 64 million likes and counting, meaning Messi’s victory is now twofold.

The museum is the second most elaborate Los Angeles institution devoted to human suffering, after the Hollywood film industry.

Shary Boyle’s Outside the Palace of Me exhibition catalogue provides viewers with experiences that an in-person visit cannot.

From a banana menorah to versions by Dalí and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.

The school denounced the rapper’s “anti-Black, antisemitic, racist and dangerous statements.”

Lisa Ericson renders her real-world subjects beautifully, but the situations in which we find them are uncanny, menacing, and unexpected.

From Dutch vanitas paintings to Laura Letinsky's contemporary photographs, artists have long paid homage to the crumby aftermath of big meals.

The city’s new initiative comes after years of penalizing and white-washing independent and unauthorized street art.

And her broken clock fetched $35,000 in an auction of her estate.

Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.

Supermodel Heidi Klum’s brilliant worm costume has inspired even more brilliant memes.

The image of the Sun with a smile suggested by dark patches on its surface drew analogies to everything from the Marshmallow Man to Teletubbies.

Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.

From creepy Victorian post-mortem portraits to Félix Nadar's horrifying shot of the Paris Catacombs, we’re definitely never sleeping again.

Founder Hattie Bishop Speed died in 1942 — but some employees of the museum say they continue to feel her presence.

Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.

The image is one of many in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition that reveals the devil is definitely in the details.

French artist Christophe Guinet’s mesmerizing plaster sculptures mimic the ability of trees to assume other forms.

We asked the AI image generator Dall-E to reimagine famous artworks at their spookiest. We really wish we hadn’t.

A new exhibition presents recently discovered works by Grant in conversation with commissioned pieces by artists of today, including other LGBTQ+ creators.

Colby Deal’s photographs capture very little on an individual basis, but an entire world when taken in aggregate.

Artists in My Life dissolves the fourth wall between artist, art object, and viewer, offering a welcome approach to arts writing as an extension of how artists live.

The technology isn’t available for public use, but Meta (formerly Facebook) released a series of eerie sample clips based on prompts like “cat watching TV” and “spaceship landing.”

From Remedios Varo to Francisco de Goya, artists have long turned to witchcraft as subject matter.

The advent of AI generators has led to an avalanche of rip-off artworks that have used Grzegorz Rutkowski’s name as a prompt.

A painting now exhibited at the Nasjonalmuseet captures Judith and her maidservant in the moment after slaying Holofernes and before their escape, as though veritably peering out of frame.

The 200-year-old instrument, housed in the Library of Congress, has not been played by anyone else until now.

The floor mosaic is part of a 50-dwelling Roman villa built in the second century on a cliff in Kent that is in danger of falling into the sea.

From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.

Some 500 satirical guerilla billboard ads posted across Europe featured texts such as "#SayYesToTheEndOfTheWorld" and “Low Fares to Plastic island.”

Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history.

This year’s Christmas stamp is titled “Virgin and Child” and features a painting from the first half of the 16th century, attributed to an unidentified Florentine artist.

The company cited “open questions” and “unaddressed rights issues” with respect to the content used by artificial intelligence generators.