As the world’s largest museum group, the Smithsonian comprises 21 museums and the National Zoo. Each year, its museums unveil exhibitions that aim to educate, entertain and surprise visitors. This ...

Today, we take a look at what happens when thanks to pure coincidence and some luck people come up with impressive pieces of unintentional art.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will loan scores of modern and contemporary masterworks in storage to museums in 50 ...

More than 130 faculty and staff at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design signed a letter this week urging the Museum of ...

It’s an understatement to say that a lot can change in 100 years. A century ago, Europe was just limping out of World War I, and the anarchic seeds of Modernism were spreading throughout a traumatized ...

The rise of generative AI models has led to equal amounts of clapping and handwringing. One worry is that, as Kevin Kelly put it, “artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans.” So ...

Understanding your aesthetic personality has implications beyond museum visits. Research shows that environmental aesthetics significantly impact well-being, productivity and even physical health.

Art supply thrift shop, free community art workshop, event space, Utica Creative Reuse, celebrates grand opening at 734 ...

As a university president, I cross our campus often on the way from one meeting to the next. One pleasure of those trips is the wealth of fine art—statuary, sculptures, monuments—that graces our space ...

The uncanny art world is a fertile ground for enthralling fiction. Here are the new books we could not put down. Gustave Courbet, A Young Woman Reading (ca. 1866/1868). Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage ...

I fell for Among Us, the multiplayer social deduction game, hard and fast. While I hadn’t played any video games in over 10 years, now I was playing semiweekly and making fan art for the very first ...