SwarmSketch allows any user to vote on every previously drawn line and add a new line to the sketch. The final result is truly the collective vision of an independent group of line artists. The only ...

The most realistic pencil drawings, or hyperrealistic pencil drawings, can sometimes be hard to believe. But a skillful use of shading and the representation of extremely fine details in pencil really ...

Art at its best can make a viewer feel or think. Technology and digital culture are helping to broaden art’s reach. That’s helping push the very old idea of art as protest into new arenas. Here are ...

This fall, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel endeavored to complete a seemingly simple project: to showcase artwork from elementary and middle school students across Wisconsin. To that end, we asked art ...

THE magnificent exhibition of classical Japanese painting and sculpture which toured the United States two years ago amazed the American museum public with its revelation of a tradition comparable in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...

IT is the custom to speak of this as a prosaic, matter-of-fact age, entirely devoted to material pursuits, and with no perception of the value of æsthetic enjoyments. The fact, however, seems to be, ...