Tag: visual arts
Painting with E. coli
An artist and a scientist have teamed up to create art out of an unlikely medium: bacteria....
Salman Rushdie plays with video games in his new book
Video games guide the hero in Salman Rushdie's newest book, "Luka and the Fire of Life."...
How crochet helps mathematics and the Great Barrier Reef
The art of crocheting provides a model for understanding both complex math and environmental threats to coral reefs. ...
Science photography on a nano scale
A photographer helps people visualize the invisible and illuminate science....
Looking at the @ sign
The @ sign, the only preposition on the keyboard, dates back to the middle ages, but has found new life in the internet age....
Modern art comes to Italy
Italy constructs its artistic future with a new modern art museum, the Maxxi, which opens this weekend in Rome....
In Mexico, artists pay taxes with paintings
The government of Mexico has accepted work from artists in lieu of income tax since 1957, and it's resulted in a collection of over 4,000 works....
Disney animator tackles Indian epic 'Ramayana' in new book
Animator Sanjay Patel, an artist at Pixar who's worked on "A Bugs Life" and "The Incredibles," tries his hand at Hindu mythology....
Ghetto Biennale art show in Port-au-Prince
The Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, is traffic-snarled, chaotic, and terribly poor; but for three weeks, it was also the site of a unique art event. ...
The first couple: An intimate portrait
An interview and photographs of the Obamas for a book in 1996 reveals the ideals of a pre-political Barack Obama....
