A sign announcing a proposed Joshua Tree Art Museum has gone up on Twentynine Palms Highway. (Christopher Knight/Los Angeles Times) When is an art museum not an art museum? Among myriad potential ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

Within the leafy confines of Taiyuan's Yingze Park, playful images of raccoons, parrots and squirrels peek out from the ...

A living art installation has planted its roots near the Rodin Sculpture Garden. The art is a tree capable of growing 40 varieties of stone fruits, highlighting themes that branch out into the realms ...

The Association for Public Art is bringing Roxy Paine’s 34-tall, over-1.5-ton Symbiosis to Philadelphia. The year-long installation will open May 27 in Iroquois Park at the northern end of the ...

(This story was updated after more information was presented to The Desert Sun after publication. Correction: The Shane Townley Arts Foundation is currently under a cease-and-desist order and thus not ...

No one can accuse Dani Dodge of not putting her feelings into her art. The Los Angeles-based artist captured hearts with discarded mattresses that she spray-painted with messages of love as a way to ...

On Monday Denver City Council will have its first reading to approve a $3,590,500 contract with an artist for a giant piece of artwork at Denver International Airport. The installation is called "The ...

Good morning, fellow Escapists. Clarity, self-reflection and revival — the stuff of New Year’s resolutions — are often sought in the California desert. These themes appear throughout The Times’ latest ...

It was a sunny afternoon in downtown Portland, Maine, and a tree was lumbering across a crosswalk in front of the Portland Museum of Art, causing a traffic jam. It was, of course, performance art — ...