Submissions are now being accepted for a new international fine-art competition called Art Ascend that offers artists ...

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Anyone who’s seen the small, brightly colored rectangular posters advertising Carbondale’s 47th Valley Visual Art Show has already encountered multimedia artist Mellie Test’s piece, “Sweet as Candy ...

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey ...

German-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' current exhibition at Regen Projects opened to long lines and an overflow crowd ...

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...

Wait … is this actually the same place?” says my friend Christine, scanning the lobby of W New York Union Square, as if ...

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As digital systems and artificial intelligence reshape daily life, the images through which societies imagine technology carry increasing weight. The art of Hajime Sorayama has long occupied this ...

Plain & Fancy Antique Mall stands as North Dakota’s answer to the question: “What if we gathered all the cool stuff from the ...

Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

A rediscovered portrait by a groundbreaking Renaissance artist is on public display for the first time in more than a century at the Winter Show in New York. Robert Simon Fine Art presents Portrait of ...