ART

An online repository of picture books from the U.S.S.R. highlights the importance of illustrator in Soviet political education.

How do you capture an entire metropolis in just a few tiny images?

The German filmmaker used painstaking animation techniques to make abstract short films that went unappreciated in Nazi Germany.

Beneath its bold lines, clever circles, and rushing waves lies the story of an almost 40-year-old artist who finally found his calling by looking to kids stuff.

A special branch of New York City’s Public Theater brings the Bard’s plays to underserved communities in the metro area.

The self-described "gay Betsy Ross" captured a civil rights movement with one simple image.

With the record-breaking sale, the visionary graffiti artist has entered a new league of fame.

Do androids dream of electronic train rides?

Most artists get to celebrate their achievements with some sort of premiere—a film screening, a book launch, a gallery opening. But a few bold writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists have elected to create work that they won’t be alive to see, d

The actor, who has been buying Chicano art for decades, now wants to share his collection with the public.

The stainless steel rings symbolize three orbital pioneers: Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, and Telstar.

Sixteenth century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo made composite heads that employed flowers, fruits, and other inanimate objects to build their human subjects' features.