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A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
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Winners of the triennial National Portrait Gallery competition used everything from rice to glitter to thread to capture themselves and the people around them
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With a surprisingly light touch, the New York City-based photographer instills feelings of solitude in his images of massive glaciers
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A research fellow at the University of Melbourne has found a sneaky way to convert math haters to math lovers. He turns complex geometries into art
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The spectacular aurora borealis is inspiring artists to create light installations, musical compositions, food and fashion
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The Cyrus Cylinder makes its U.S. debut on March 9. It is considered one of the most important archaeological artifacts in history.
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From a caterpillar to the Milky Way, the ten finalists in the contest's Natural World category capture the peculiar, the remarkable and the sublime
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The piece by Taiwanese artist Cindy Chao has a surprise revealed only under ultraviolet light
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From a Confederate spy to a deepwater researcher, women are everywhere and the Smithsonian is telling their stories
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How the make-believe alter ego of an imaginative teen in the 1970s won him the fame he always dreamed of 40 years later
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Artist Nathalie Miebach uses meteorological data to create 3D woven works of art and playable musical scores
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3D printing is a new technology that seems poised to change the world, but its origins date back all the way to the 15th century
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In his new book, Serpentine, Mark Laita captures the colors, textures and sinuous forms of a variety of snake species
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From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Is it art? Or science? With DNA, Eduardo Kac pushes the limits of creativity and ethics
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Artists are borrowing from biology to create dazzling "biodesigns" that challenge our aesthetics—and our place in nature
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Macrophotographer Thomas Shahan takes portraits of spiders and insects in the hopes of turning your revulsion of the creatures into reverence
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Everything from parrots to gossipy novels influenced art in Japan between 1603 to 1868
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The Armory Show provoked reactions of love and hate; today it is recognized as changing American art forever
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Dominic Episcopo's red and raw images capture the spirit of Americana.
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