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Art Made With This Algae Pen Becomes Visible After Sun Exposure

Now you can use "living ink" to create time-lapse masterpieces.

This Art Exhibit Blends Your Face With Portraits of Other People

London-based artist Antonio Daniel wants to foster sympathy between strangers—by blending their faces together.

The University Museum of Art via Facebook

Where Stolen Art Used to Be, Museum Now Displays Drawings of the Suspects

Thirty years later and they’re still not over it.

Paint 3D Sculptures in the Air With This New Mobile App

The Air Pencil app uses your smartphone's mechanical systems to create paintings made of light.

Tattoo Artist Bang Bang Collects Ink From Celebrity Clients

The New York-based artist shares his favorite tattoo stories in a new book.

15 Things You Should Know About Robert Indiana's LOVE

Learn the heartbreaking history of the ubiquitous artwork.

Danish Artist Creates Fantastic ‘Specimens’ in Glass

Imaginary sea creatures come to life in Steffen Dam’s glass curiosities.

8 Unusually Large Musical Instruments

If you get a chance to listen to any of these, don't pass it up.

Times Square Shuttle (E. coli, salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus), via Craig Ward

The Germs in Subways, Visualized

We all know the subways in New York City are crawling with germs, but now we can see what those germs look like in action.

Milwaukee Man Confuses Travelers with ‘Welcome to Cleveland' Sign on His Roof

Most epic prank ever.

Artist Paints Beautiful Submerged Murals on Icebergs

These temporary murals are meant to draw attention to climate change.

Artist Puts Classic Actors In Modern Movie Posters

Graphic designer Peter Stults creates beautifully designed hypothetical movie posters.

17 Fascinating Facts About Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto

The creator of Mario and Zelda is so valuable to Nintendo that the company won't allow him to bike to work.

15 Salacious Facts About John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X

Today, John Singer Sargent's 'Portrait of Madame X' is regarded as a brilliant and tasteful depiction of classical beauty and femininity. So it might shock you to learn that when the American artist first unveiled this painting in 1884, all hell broke loo

How a Wombat Became a Famous Art Muse

Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossettiwas talented, tempestuous, and completely obsessed with wombats.

15 Intoxicating Facts About Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Édouard Manet laced this 1882 masterpiece with mystery, from the ambiguous expression of its central figure to the smoke and mirrors of its execution.

Bioengineered Replica of Vincent van Gogh's Ear Comes to New York

You've seen the artist without the ear, now see the ear without the artist.

A Snoopy comic exhibition at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California.

Good Grief! 18 Facts About Charles Schulz's Peanuts Comics

Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts' comic strip made its debut on October 2, 1950, and has been an indelible part of American culture ever since.

Participate in an International Pop Culture Scavenger Hunt This Week

To celebrate the release of his third book, artist Scott Campbell has launched a week long international scavenger hunt to find his artwork.

Synthetic DNA Tags Could End Art Forgery

The forensic stamp would make authenticating a piece of artwork as easy as a quick scan.

15 Scandalous Facts About Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic

American realist Thomas Eakins earned renown for portraits so true to life they could almost be mistaken for photographs. But his greatest accomplishment was also his most controversial, 1875's The Gross Clinic.

These Flower Street Lamps ‘Bloom’ When You Approach Them

This Jerusalem art installation aims to make the city a brighter place.

This Artist Creates Oil Paintings Inspired By Virtual Reality

“Lossy” blends age-old oil painting techniques with the latest virtual reality technology to illustrate the ways in which the real and the virtual fade into each other—and the results are visually stunning.

UK-Based Street Artist Creates Animated GIFs Using Graffiti

A cool way to blend handpainted and digital art.

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