visual arts

"Bust of a smiling woman," 1901, by Pablo Picasso, at the Reina Sofía Museum. 
Arts, Culture & Media
The Picasso paradox: Museums grapple with how to remember the artist’s complicated legacy
A pen coffin is designed for a deceased teacher or author.
Culture
Ghana’s fantasy coffins: Fulfilling burial dreams one coffin at a time 
a image simulation of Van Gogh art projected in a room with a car in the center
Coronavirus Art
‘Gogh By Car’ to this Toronto art exhibit
The sound collage, “Social Distance, Haiku, and You,” pulls together haikus about life in quarantine from all over the world.  
Coronavirus Art
Quarantine projects curate pandemic-inspired art
Amy Sherald and her painting, “Handsome,” 2019.
Arts
Amy Sherald doesn’t need your Instagram post
A group of people is seen on a mobile staircase at an airport.
Arts, Culture & Media
Metro banned ads for this art exhibition on the immigration crisis, then changed its mind
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera stands with her arms in the air, and dozens of people behind her, standing in the same position
Artist Tania Bruguera says Cuba’s latest crackdown on the arts is ‘the legalization of censorship’
Children's book cover
What you’re reading: Children’s books for a Global Nation
giant red balloon dragon
Arts, Culture & Media
How balloons gave a blind South Korean artist his life back
Peggy Cooper Cafritz
Arts
Remembering art collector Peggy Cooper Cafritz
A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a scene in the decisive Battle of Hastings in 1066
Arts
English and French rivalry highlighted by loan of historic Bayeux Tapestry
Illustrator Barry Blitt at his home studio in Connecticut
Culture
Barry Blitt may call himself ‘old-timey,’ but his political artwork is up-to-the-minute
Mona Lisa
Arts
Biographer Walter Isaacson, on Leonardo da Vinci’s art and science
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Of Art And Science
Left: Kim Jong-Un as the class bully, El Universal Opinion, Mexico,  September 2, 2017.   Right: Catalonia removes a key piece of Spain, El Universal Opinion, Mexico, October 14, 2017.
Arts
The wordless, surreal and very Cuban satire of Angel Boligán
Arts, Culture & Media
High profile art heists on the rise around the world
Ai Weiwei's Zodiac heads stand ten feet tall and weigh around 800 pounds. They are cast in bronze and are displayed outside at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
Arts
Ai Weiwei can’t travel, but his Zodiac Heads exhibit has found a home in Jackson, Wyoming
Graffiti lead photo
Arts
This Nicaraguan woman answers sexism with spraypaint
Frida Kahlo
Arts
Frida Kahlo’s letters fetch more than $1,000 per page at auction
Detroit Industry, east wall (detail), Diego Rivera, 1932. Detroit Institute of Arts
Arts
Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s painting sings the praises of a Detroit past — and future
The Michelangelo bronzes 'Only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world' discovered, Cambridge, Britain.
Arts
Nude, drunk and riding on panthers: Michelangelo’s lost masterpiece discovered
French cartoonist Charb, publishing director of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, poses for photographs at their offices in Paris, September 19, 2012. Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday, a decision criticised by the
Conflict
‘Oh, you know, nobody wants to kill caricaturists like us’
Blacksad on the cover of Amarillo
Culture
This is one cool, epic, black cat detective
A mechanically modified butterfly
Arts
The collision of art and science will produce an entirely new art form, a new book says
Artist Susan Crile stands with a study for a painting of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Business
A court rules that being an artist really is a business — maybe
A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.
Media
ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
Mosque in Turkey
Belief
This architect says the most important feature of a mosque is its sustainability
Arts, Culture & Media
Google’s helping street artists preserve their work forever — long after their canvases come down
Gertie the Dinosaur cel
Arts, Culture & Media
If you loved animated movies, thank a relatively unknown cartoonist named Winsor McCay
Lifestyle & Belief
Lebanese Singer Uses Music to Document Change in Middle East
The original Unikko pattern by Finnish design company Marimekko
Arts, Culture & Media
That flower design on your shower curtain? It just turned 50
This Matisse painting is the object of competing claims in Germany.
Arts, Culture & Media
An amazing collection of stolen German art may go back to the man who has been hiding it for decades
Arts, Culture & Media
Gene Luen Yang puts China’s Boxer Rebellion in vivid, explosive color in his new graphic novel
Arts, Culture & Media
An Iranian photographer captures the toll Egypt’s revolution has taken on the poor
Arts, Culture & Media
How one man’s Olympic design influenced your next trip to the public restroom
Arts, Culture & Media
Banksy’s exhibition in New York gets people talking about art
Pay attention the next time you are at the movies. Does it pass the Bechdel test?
Arts, Culture & Media
This movie will be rated for gender bias
U.S. soldiers examine the painting, "Wintergarden," by French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet, stolen by the Nazi regime and hidden in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany April 15, 1945.
Arts, Culture & Media
German police find masterpieces by Picasso and others thought lost in World War II
Brooklyn-based Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu.
Arts, Culture & Media
Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu takes us on a ‘Fantastic Journey’
La Sagrada Familia
Arts, Culture & Media
The coolest video you will ever see of the tallest church on earth
Arts, Culture & Media
The ugliest building on Harvard’s campus just might be its most beautiful
Mapping Our Digital DNA
Arts, Culture & Media
Painter Eric Fischl bares his soul in new memoir
Arts, Culture & Media
Sarah Sze set to represent U.S. at art’s Venice Biennale
Arts, Culture & Media
New York’s Museum of Modern Art reconsiders decision to raze neighbor
Lifestyle & Belief
Spanish priest commissions graffiti work to brighten up his church
Arts, Culture & Media
As film turns to digital small movie theaters struggle to keep the lights on
Arts, Culture & Media
New exhibition at N.Y.’s Met looks at roots of photo manipulation
Arts, Culture & Media
Expert says Rotterdam art heist likely an inside job, linked to drug trade
Environment
Disney becomes latest publisher to turn to sustainable paper products
Arts, Culture & Media
Belgian comic book industry seeks return to prominence
Arts, Culture & Media
Amateur restoration botches Jesus painting in Spain
Environment
Book recalls life of man who, more than anyone, gives us the images we know of dinosaurs
Arts, Culture & Media
Digging into movie ratings: What makes an ‘R’ movie and a ‘PG-13’ one
Arts, Culture & Media
Lawsuit seeks to place limits on fair use appropriation of others’ work in art
Environment
University professor developing environmentally conscious cement
Global Politics
Deadly Christmas Day fire points to hazards of improperly tended fires
Business, Economics and Jobs
How a typeface can save money and lives
Health & Medicine
Getting kids to bike again
Arts, Culture & Media
Modern art comes to Italy