In 1980, a group of friends opened an alternative art space in a then-rough part of town and gave it the difficult and unconventional name of Pirate: a contemporary art oasis. But the co-op’s name ...

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 ...

With his iconic images of everyday items, from pastel-iced cakes, candies, shoes, to even sardines, California artist Wayne Thiebaud has been a uniquely defining force in American art since the early ...

Colony is an important word in Western North Carolina history. It applies to the linked families who pioneered the wilderness and to collections of individuals drawn, over a period of years, to ...

It was 2020. The world was on lockdown, crying out for some good news. And of all the unlikely things, a public artwork was able to oblige. “It’s so simple but it’s so meaningful in what it’s asking,” ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...