Stanislav Senyk's Graduation Portraits Amid Ruins in Chernihiv
Originally published 2022-06-25. In the spring of 2022, Ukrainian photographer Stanislav Senyk photographed about forty graduating school...
Art & Creative Expression
Art gives ideas a form we can see, touch or experience. Explore artists and creative projects that play with perspective, turn ordinary materials into something unexpected or make room for a different way of looking. The work is the beginning; the person and purpose behind it add another layer.
Midair Rabbit Fight Photos and the Fist of the North Star Comparison
In March 2022 a pair of photographs of two rabbits colliding in midair went viral in Japan and then around the world. One rabbit, sandy and ...
Chronophotography-Inspired Images of Acrobatic Movement
Chronophotography records successive stages of movement, allowing an action to be examined beyond a single isolated pose. Historical metho...
Heads of Dionysus and Aphrodite Unearthed in the Ancient City of Aizanoi
A face emerging from the soil offers an immediate connection with the past. At Aizanoi, in western Turkey, two sculpted heads identified as ...
Simon Beck Creates Giant Murals on Snow and Sand Using Only His Feet
From a mountainside, Simon Beck’s snow art looks almost like an enormous drawing laid over the landscape. Walk closer and the lines become s...
Russian Film Crew Returned From the ISS After Shooting The Challenge
The actor and director who filmed scenes for the professional feature drama The Challenge in space have returned to Earth after 12 days in...
Otzi the Iceman's 61 Tattoos: How They Were Mapped and Why
First published October 13, 2021. Ötzi the Iceman , the 5,300-year-old man found frozen in the Alps in 1991, carries 61 tattoos arranged...
The World’s Oldest Mosaic? Uşaklı Höyük’s 3,500-Year-Old Stone Floor
Before a mosaic becomes a picture, it is a decision to put one stone beside another. At Uşaklı Höyük in central Turkey, that simple act prod...
Andoni Bastarrika’s Sand Animals So Lifelike People Think They’re Real
A resting animal can be harder to sculpt convincingly than a dramatic one. There is no spectacular movement to distract the eye: the weight ...
Fred Ramos' Photographs and Mexico's Missing-Persons Crisis
First published October 4, 2021. Mexico has well over 100,000 people officially listed as missing, and the number keeps rising. In October ...
Jens Haaning's Take the Money and Run: Blank Canvases and the Court
In 2021 the Danish conceptual artist Jens Haaning was lent about 532,000 Danish kroner in banknotes by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in ...
Crazy Horse Memorial: The Long Work of Carving a Mountain Monument
The Crazy Horse Memorial has been taking shape in South Dakota’s Black Hills since work began in 1948. Its planned form shows the Oglala Lak...
Airglow From Space: Thomas Pesquet's ISS Photo Explained
The thin, glowing band hugging the curve of the planet in this photograph is airglow : faint light given off by Earth’s upper atmosphere it...
Wara Art: Japan’s Giant Sculptures Made From Rice Straw
In Niigata, a rice harvest can leave behind the beginnings of a giant creature. The Wara Art project transforms rice straw into large outdoo...
Bird Photographer of the Year 2021: Winners and Stories
The overall winner of Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 was Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto . His picture, titled “Blocked”, shows a...
Shamsia Hassani, Afghan Street Artist, Answers the Taliban With Her Art
Shamsia Hassani gives women a commanding presence in images where architecture, color and silence carry much of the story. Her figures can a...
Mikis Theodorakis and the Ballad of Mauthausen
The Ballad of Mauthausen , often called the Mauthausen Trilogy or Mauthausen Cycle, is a set of four songs that Mikis Theodorakis composed ...
CoExistence Elephants: The Story Behind the Sculpted Herd
An elephant herd outside Buckingham Palace is a striking sight even when the animals are sculptures. In 2021, the CoExistence project brough...
Apukunaq Tianan: Modern Stone Art Near Cusco, Peru
Large faces emerging from a rocky hillside near Cusco can make Apukunaq Tianan look like a discovery from a much older world. It is, however...
Roger Waters Rejected Facebook's Offer for Another Brick in the Wall
First published June 16, 2021. In June 2021 Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, said he had turned down "a huge, huge amount of ...
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