Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

Escherllate is a fun browser sketchbook built around tessellation. You draw on a central tile, and your lines instantly ...

What happens in an artist’s private life? In public, Duncan Grant was a charismatic and influential painter, a member of the Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals who flourished in London ...

Edvard Munch, “Angry Dog” (ca 1938–43), watercolor, one of many images generated by Edvard Munch of a neighbor’s dog with whom he had a contentious relationship (all images courtesy of the Munch ...

Raphael is unquestionably one of the greatest artists in history, but his paintings have, at times, been described as a little unimaginative due to their strict formalist design. In contrast, the ...

Every exquisite drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the founder of modern neuroscience, is marred by a curious mark. Here is the little-known story behind it. Working alone at the turn of the 20th ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government organisations to investigate teacher standards and refugee resettlement. She is on the Board of Directors ...

MCP: The stream of books about Louis Kahn, nearly a half century after his death, continues. What accounts for this permanent academic and architectural fascination with him? Why do we keep circling ...