No matter if you are a specialist or not, there is one vital rule in illustrating descriptions of new plant or animal species: you have to do it! A paper published in the open-access journal ZooKeys ...

As if in direct response to its overscaled, canon-cementing Abstract Expressionism display, the Museum of Modern Art is also giving us something quirky, speculative, physically light, a show called ...

Sometimes, all you need to create some magic is some magic markers. In a new series called Gran Fachada (“Grand Facade” in English), Madrid-based artist Marlon de Azambuja works this marker magic on ...

Using drone cameras, scientists have documented spectacular line drawings newly discovered in southern Peru. They are likely much older than the famous Nazca lines. The latest line drawings show ...

IN THE YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images. Now brain scans show why one method of creating “implicit motion”, used by an ...

Sol LeWitt was the man who made conceptual art an appealing concept. For almost four decades, LeWitt, who died last year at 78, made immense abstract wall drawings that he conceived but almost never ...

An artificial intelligence can easily turn simple line sketches into realistic photographs. Lin Gao at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues have developed an algorithm that ...

Like too many Valley voters, Katy O’Connor spent hours waiting to cast her ballot in Tuesday's presidential preference election. But unlike most of those voters, she channeled boredom and frustration ...

Art Review | 'The Drawings of Bronzino' By Holland Cotter Agnolo Bronzino’s was the hand to hire for a power portrait in mid-16th-century Florence. He could turn toddlers into potentates and make ...

Demetri Martin — stand-up comic, actor, bestselling author and former correspondent for “The Daily Show” — has garnered a reputation for incorporating another talent into his comedy: drawing. His new ...