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Can You Spot the Ghost Among the Skeletons?

Are you able to find where the ghost is hiding in the large group of skeletons? Ready, set, squint …

Every Laser-Cut 'Geode' Jigsaw Puzzle is One of a Kind

The 3-D printed puzzles are programmed to generate like real agate stone.

Winston Churchill’s Final Painting Is Going to Auction for the First Time

The image captures his "most special place in the world."

Epic Gremlins Poster Contains More Than 80 References to Classic Movies

Artist Kevin Wilson crammed in 84 Easter eggs, a nod to the year the film was released.

Barack Obama Taps Kehinde Wiley to Paint His Official Presidential Portrait

The artist is known for his majestic paintings of hip-hop figures.

Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.406E

New Smithsonian Exhibit Explains Why Felines Were the Cat's Meow in Ancient Egypt

"Divine Felines" opens this Caturday (uh, Saturday) at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Eye-Catching Videos Show the Beauty of Chemical Reactions

It's gorgeous when elements react in high resolution.

15 Things You Should Know About Jacques-Louis David's 'Death of Socrates'

You can "read" the painting right to left—or left to right.

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Mummified Head Is Back on Display

And his whole body is coming to America next year.

Snapchat and Jeff Koons Have Created an Augmented-Reality Art Treasure Hunt

You'll need to look through a special lens on the app to see Koons's hidden artwork.

5 Self-Portraits Famous Authors Doodled in Their Own Books

Kurt Vonnegut, in particular, loved to give fans a little extra artistic flourish with his signature.

Artist Plans to Launch a Giant Sculpture Into Orbit

Trevor Paglen's sculptural satellite will spend two months in low-Earth orbit before burning up in the atmosphere.

Cape Town Is Now Home to Africa's Largest Contemporary Art Museum

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened its doors to the public on September 22.

15 Things You Should Know About Jacques-Louis David's 'Napoleon Crossing the Alps'

It was a gift to Napoleon—though he didn't get to keep it.

6 Peak Sneak-Peek Paintings from the New Bob Ross Art Book

More than 300 of the public television celebrity's signature landscape paintings have been collected into a coffee table book.

A Pair of New Museums Will Honor Fashion Icon Yves Saint Laurent

We're already donning our smoking jackets.

Microscopic Videos Provide a Rare Close-Up Glimpse of the Natural World

Here are the top 2017 winners of Nikon’s annual Small World in Motion digital video competition.

‘American Gothic’ Became Famous Because Many People Saw It as a Joke

The painting has its ambiguity to thank for its icon status.

“Dissension” by Tobias Rothe. Original image courtesy Fondazione Federico Zeri/Università di Bologna // CC-BY 3.0

Get Your GIFs Ready for This International Public Domain GIF-Making Competition

Hosted by digital libraries in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, GIF IT UP honors the best animated images that use public domain images.

The Library of Congress Wants Your Help Identifying World War I-Era Political Cartoons

The Library of Congress has a new digital innovation lab, and its first task is to make its archive of historical newspapers more search-friendly.

Berlin Is Now Home to the World's Largest Street Art Museum

The Museum for Urban Contemporary Art has an ever-changing mural-covered façade and a collection filled with works by international and local artists alike.

Brigido Lara, the Artist Whose Pre-Columbian Fakes Fooled Museums Around the World

Lara's skills as a master forger got him out of jail—but by then his frauds were all over the world.

The King of Kong © Jim Naughten. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery

The Mountains of Kong: The Majestic West African Range That Never Existed

It appeared on plenty of maps, but was completely fictional.

Meet Crayola’s Newest Crayon Color: Bluetiful

It’s a lot punnier than Crayony McCrayonface.

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