He was giving us back the songs he’d taken away so many years ago, validating their worth again, and our love for them.

110 cm * 110 cm - Acrylic on canvas, mixed techniques

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Calder: The Conquest of Time, Jed Perl reveals a hidden side of the artist

These skillfully and elaborately designed cards were distributed by merchants to their customers in the late 19th century. By Claire Voon.

French 16th-century artist Bernard Palissy was known to capture live plant and animals species to create his vibrant ceramic plates, basins and vessels.

Artist Spencer Merolla's "Coal Comforts" is an pop-up bakery serving treats made from coal ash to encourage dialogue on climate change and pollution.

Young people in the art world are disproportionately likely to get financial help from their parents. Can only rich kids afford careers in the arts? By Anna Louie Sussman. (Feb. 14, 2017)

The vintage-style propaganda posters in Washington, DC take aim at white supremacism, racism – and Donald Trump. A daring act of resistance, or an insulting slur on the US President? By Rachel Stewart.

Looking at depictions of St. Anthony in the paintings of Renaissance masters, the influence of the disease of ergotism on the history of art starts to become clear. By Forrest Muelrath.

Professor Amanda Vickery journeys from Renaissance Italy to the Dutch Republic and discovers a hidden world of female artistry. (3-Part playlist)

The designer's partner in love and in business died today in his Saint-Rémy-de-Provence home, leaving behind an incredible legacy in the worlds of fashion, art and politics.

For the last several years, Danish design firm MONSTRUM (previously) has constructed wildly imaginative playscape features for playgrounds around the world with an intense focus on both artistic and architectural quality. The playgrounds are designed and built locally in their large studio just outs

Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?

It also apparently contains some diamonds and emeralds. Which is cool.

From a water ballet about periods to cabaret Glittery Clittery, a record number of female performers and shows focusing on the female body feature in this year's Melbourne Fringe.

Caravaggio was a genius, that's undisputed. He was also a killer and a street gang menace (and a terrible tenant)

Japan is a country full of amazing art. Some of it is housed within museums and galleries while others are right underneath our feet. I’m talking, of course, about Japan’s peculiar obsession with manhole covers. Just about anywhere in the country you can find stylized manhole covers, each more beautiful and intricate than the next. For the past several years photographer S. Morita has traveled around Japan photographing artistic manhole covers.

Photographer Philippe Glade has captured the unusual and ephemeral architecture of Nevada's Burning Man festival.

This four and a half minute-long video from Victoria & Albert Museum condenses the twelve months of meticulous labor that are required to make a traditional Korean inlaid lacquer box. Featuring skilled craftsman Lee Kwang-Woong, the video shows each of the many steps, starting with harvesting sa

Defying the very limits of genre (as to be expected when signed to Flying Lotus' label), Iglooghost's eclecticism is primed for a breakthrough.

From Thaddeus Wolfe to Amber Cowan, these artists are taking the medium in radical new directions.

Using only an iPhone, desk lamp, and an expansive collection of miniatures, Derrick Lin creates tiny moments of daily life at his desk

75 cm * 115 cm -- Acrylic and spraycans on canvas

Artist Robert Benavidez focuses on the art of piñata making in much of his sculptural practice, producing birds, sugar skulls, and paintings out of the same technique used to create the iconic candy-filled party object. His latest series of piñatas focuses on the work of the 15th century Dutch paint

Jan Campbell turns avocado pits into beautiful works of art

You might be surprised at what the research says about how art changes consciousness and the functioning of the brain.

Mary Nohl (1914–2001) was a wood-carver, painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, potter, writer, illustrator, and jeweler. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998, when it was filled with art from floor to ceiling.

Ordinary moments in Japan translated into pixel art by Japanese illustrator Toyoi Yuuta based in Kyoto.

If you take a stroll around Redwood City, California, you might get the sense that something isn't quite right. Pay particular attention to the shadows. Notice how they seem to misbehave? Flowers sprout from the shadows of bike racks, mailboxes turn into shadow monsters, and shady monkeys hang around atop parking meters. What's going on?

Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas -- 80 cm * 60 cm

Werewolf tears Nazism a new one.

And other amazing objects from Design Toscano

These yokai sushi look they’re about to jump off your plate. A Japanese illustrator who goes by the pen-name Hanabiyori Tatami imagined these ghoulish creations, bringing various different types of sushi to life by imbuing them with yokai, a class of supernatural demons found in Japanese folklore.

The machine, which Catholics called "demonic," was installed by French street theater company La Machine as part of Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations last Thursday.