Claudia Swan reviews Laura J. Snyder’s “Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing.”

Artists can juggle seemingly contradictory modes of thought.

In Southern China a village of artists are creating copycat paintings from the worlds greatest artists. Van Gogh never sold a copy of his creation ‘Sunflowers’, so how come these guys are?

Art installations of burning intensity.

At Art Basel in Miami Beach, the megawealthy rule—but they do so like at no other place on the planet.

“There's no hard feelings, I just want credit.” By Luke O’Neil.

In 1989, organizers of the Festival of Cartoon Art, a triennial gathering of cartoonists and their fans at The Ohio State University, tapped Bill Watterson, the creator of the newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to deliver one of the keynote addresses. The reclusive Ohio native put forth a list of demands... By Luke Epplin.

Richard Holmes reviews "Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame," by H.J. Jackson, "Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake," by Leo Damrosch, and "Poems" by William Blake, selected and introduced by Patti Smith.

Along the façade of the National Gallery these days are hoardings announcing Credit Suisse’s patronage of the Goya show, with the invitation: ‘Now you can bring Goya’s portraits to life, using your smartphone.’ I didn’t think much of the invitation as I passed it... By T.J. Clark.

Donna Wold’s hair is now white, not “violently red”, but she still remembers her courtship with a man named Sparky, and the comic strips that read “like an old love letter.” By Darryn King.

Artists and paintmakers can breathe a little easier now that the European Union has officially thrown out Sweden’s baffling proposal to ban cadmium pigment from paint.

Are you an artist? Do you have free time but no ideas? Or perhaps you're not an artist, but you have an idea! Whichever one, come to /artrequest and get what you need!

This week’s feature is San Francicsco based artist Tiffanie Turner, who crafts fictitious paper flowers that look remarkably real. Owing to their realism is Turner’s lifelong obsession with botanicals, inspring her to recreate every kind from the common marigolds and poppies to Japanese anemone. Equally impressive is the size of her works measuring nearly 3ft wide...

The Weeknd sings about sex a lot, and it almost always sounds like a miserable experience. Who wants that? Do you? If yes, please ask yourself why. Actually, I’m going to stop you right there and assume that it’s because you are lost. Luckily, I found you—and I’m here to tell you something: Do not do that. Do not fuck the Weeknd.

My favorite music meme of the summer was this mix boiling down the Human League’s 1981 hit “Don’t You Want Me?” to its opening phrase: “You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,” repeated in endless, sublimely moronic variations. It condenses into less than three minutes all the smart dumbness and stylish awkwardness of ’80s music.

There are a lot of great ones out there but there are also some bad ones, so what follows are some important points illustrators should think about when deciding to approach one, and how to protect yourself from getting fleeced. I really feel they should work FOR YOU, not the other way around. You are not their employee, and they are not your boss. They should also not push projects on you that you have no interest in, or treat you as an extension of their brand.

Countless artists have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work. User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950's, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and drew 11 self-portraits over nine-plus hours.

Art show on 2.5-acre seafront site in Weston-super-Mare features Cinderella crash scene, post-riot model village and cardboard airport security

Molly Soda is an art darling of a generation that grew up with the internet as a constant companion. Stream Gallery’s current show, SAME, was curated by Soda and features work by her and four other artists exploring the phenomenon of identifying with others’ posts and images on social media sites like Instagram and Tumblr.

Attention All Steampunk Designers! Artists, fans, and enthusiasts can now submit finished 3D items and textures for a chance to have them accepted and incorporated into the game. Do you have idea for items you'd like to see in game?