David Goodsell’s scientifically precise watercolor paintings of the cells and microbes he studies grace journal covers and impress colleagues

Writer and artist Leanne Shapton on multi-channel storytelling, unconventional creative routines, and balancing personal and professional work.

Acrylics on canvas - 30 * 40 cm

You can now find famous art collections, from museums and civic institutions, in living color on the web. Researcher Tara Calishain details what is happening with some of these and looks forward to more art coming to computer screens, at times enhanced so you see more than you would if you were viewing them inside the museum.

Oxford city council immediately opposed the installation of the shark. At first, they said it was dangerous to the public, but engineers and inspectors pronounced it structurally safe.

Van Gogh spent three years in London and delighted in Britain’s literary heritage, a love that is explored in a new Tate show

A supposed copy of a 15th Century masterpiece is actually found to have been created in his studio.

In her project Archiving Eden, photographer Dornith Doherty explores the beauty and necessity of the world's botanical stockpiles.

Arthur Brand located the stolen Picasso painting after a four-year search

Acrylics on canvas - 30*40 cm - Ghent (Belgium), 2019

Can you imagine seeing a Van Gogh painting sitting right off the freeway on your morning commute or aerial ride? One field in Egan, Minnesota got exactly this when the 64-year-old artist, Stan Herd, transformed it into Van Gogh’s 1889 “Olive Trees.” Herd has been doing similar types of artworks or ‘earthworks’ since 1981. His most recent project took six months and spans 1.2 acres. Plenty of mowing, digging, and planting was involved. All of which were sponsored by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It can even be seen from the Minneapolis airport.

HOW DID J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings? The simple answer is that he wrote it. He sat down in a chair in 1937 and spent more than a dozen years working on what remains a masterwork of fantasy literature and a genius stroke of immersive worldbuilding. The more complicated answer is that in addition to writing the story, he drew it. The many maps and sketches he made while drafting The Lord of the Rings informed his storytelling, allowing him to test narrative ideas and illustrate scenes he needed to capture in words. For Tolkien, the art of writing and the art of drawing were inextricably intertwined.

While in Pakistan The Renegade Economist investigates the intriguing world of truck painting in Karachi.

See the funniest examples of medieval art where people are getting stabbed but just don’t give a damn.

On Friday a flock of giant breasts are floating down Amsterdam's canals for International Women's Day. This action is

A photorealistic reimagining of Skulltula is absolutely terrifying in Nate Hallinan's art of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's iconic enemy.

Artist Alex Biagi refuses to let a disease that nearly robbed him of the use of his limbs prevent him from giving back to his community. Biagi, 38, earned Reddit’s adoration February 16 after he shared a photo of him painting a fox for an event benefiting the animal shelter Life Is Better Rescue in Denver, Colorado. What struck a chord with redditors on r/pics was the sight of Biagi painting with a brush in his mouth.

In a 2012 exhibition about the birth of abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curators highlighted the way that the artists may have influenced one another. Titled “Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925,” the show illustrated over 80 artists’ radical departures from the traditions of representational art, and opened with a large diagram depicting their network to show who knew each other (an interactive version of which is online), with the most connected, like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, toward the center.

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence say an X-ray examination of a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi has revealed hidden artwork by the Baroque master.

"But if we get rid of all the paedophiles, we won’t have any estate agents/plumbers/accountants left!” wailed literally no one ever. And yet, this plaint is regularly repeated when it comes to artists accused of abusive behaviour, even now, after everything. Because, really, how can we possibly expect people to make decent music without committing some casual sexual abuse? Last week, the New York Times published allegations of psychological and sexual abuse against navel-gazing indie bore Ryan Adams, all of which he denies. Several women, including his ex-wife, Mandy Moore, claimed Adams’ behaviour put them off the music industry.