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Artist Arthur Ganson has spent nearly 50 years building kinetic sculptures that walk, wobble and even take themselves apart, without serving any practical function. His work is presented as an exploration of mechanical motion and form for its own sake rather than utility.
George Lucas revealed he intended to continue making Star Wars movies before shifting his focus to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. He did not detail what those future films would have involved, only confirming the plan existed at one point.
Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his firm MAD Architects have completed the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a large-scale building in Los Angeles's Exposition Park designed to house filmmaker George Lucas's art collection. The project marks the most high-profile commission yet for Ma, known for sculptural, futuristic designs that go beyond conventional museum architecture.
An analysis explains why dogs frequently appear in Renaissance religious paintings commissioned by Dominican monasteries, tracing the imagery to a medieval legend about St Dominic's mother and a symbolic Latin wordplay linking the order's name to dogs of the Lord. The piece argues this canine imagery was not controversial or heretical but a widely understood visual tradition tied to the order's founding myth.
Krita, the open-source 2D painting application, remains a favored alternative to subscription-based tools like Photoshop for concept art, comics, and illustration work. It offers a robust brush engine, stylus support for tilt and rotation, HDR painting, texture wrap-around modes, and a timeline-based animation system with onion skinning and audio playback.
The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit publication, has shared a collection of historical photographs depicting elaborate sand sculptures created on the beaches of Atlantic City between roughly 1880 and 1920. The images document a once-popular seaside art form that flourished during that era. Alongside the feature, the outlet appealed to readers for donations, noting it operates without ads or paywalls.
A programmer describes a personal breakdown driven by anxiety over generative AI's impact on creative and technical work, particularly coding. They argue AI art is easy to dismiss as inferior, but AI-assisted programming poses a harder challenge because large language models have become genuinely competent at generating code, forcing every developer to decide how to respond.
A NASA-developed image-processing method called decorrelation stretch, originally created to pull extra detail from satellite and Mars rover photos, has been repurposed to reveal ancient artwork invisible to the naked eye. Using this technique, a Singaporean archaeologist uncovered roughly 200 faded paintings at Angkor Wat between 2010 and 2012, including scenes of horseback riders and musicians. The method reached archaeology through Jon Harman, a medical imaging professional and rock-art hobbyist who adapted NASA's published algorithm into the widely used Dstretch software.
Scientists have applied a decorrelation stretch method originally developed by NASA to enhance Mars imagery, using it instead to uncover faded rock art on Earth. The technique works by remapping the original colors of an image into an expanded range rather than just boosting contrast, making subtle pigment differences visible to the human eye.
Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum, the artist's former home on the French Riviera, and made off with two paintings valued at $10.5 million combined. The artworks remain missing, and investigators say the theft fits a pattern of recent high-profile art crimes targeting museums worldwide.
George Lucas's long-delayed Museum of Narrative Art has opened after being shopped to three different cities over 16 years and costing roughly $1 billion to build. Early reviews of the museum, which houses Lucas's personal collection of illustration and film art, are decidedly mixed.
Four murals in San Francisco's Clarion Alley were painted over by a worker acting on orders from a property manager who reportedly mistook the artwork for graffiti. The Clarion Alley Mural Project, which has curated the alley's murals since 1992, says none of the artists or organizers were consulted before the paint-over occurred. Co-director Veronica Torres called the group 'heartbroken and furious' in a letter demanding accountability.