A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations.

The multifaceted nature of creativity subverts the assumption it’s a human endeavor exclusively—meaning we might need to radically re-think the definition of “art.”

Though technological innovation has always influenced considerations of art—think of Duchamp’s controversial urinal—the constant throughout is human touch.

How does generative artificial intelligence upend conventional understandings of who is and what makes for a true artist?

An artist combines repetition, balance, proportion, movement, and other design elements to form the whole of a visual composition.

Climate activist attacks on works by van Gogh, Vermeer, and other art world titans are the latest in a tradition of destruction that hearkens to the early Christian zealots.

An expansive collection of postcards captures the evolving cultural landscape of Southern California—particularly greater Los Angeles—in the twentieth century.

Immigrant artist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot used his skills to accurately represent the details—and the sublimity—of our solar system.

Thirty years after the invention of blockchain, an artist sold a JPG using that technology for nearly $70 million. Huh?

American popular culture flourished in the 1930s, despite the Great Depression. One thing that helped: artists being included in the New Deal.