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Aug 18, 2020
8 min

Why You Should Totally Judge a Book by Its Cover: The beautiful art of book cover design

“Unlike a multiple-page book or a website, a book cover only creates a singular visual moment.” There’s one chance to get it right.

Apr 27, 2020
6 min

The Sport, Sensuality and Art of Pole Dance: An interview

Pole art, according to the Exotic Dance Academy, is “all about telling you a story..."

Jan 15, 2020
6 min

Seeing Is Not Believing: Dr. Jayanne English talks visual grammar & the art behind astrophotograhy

It’s not a swift process; images have taken her up to a year to create. It all proves the point that these images are decidedly not simple s

Jan 15, 2020
8 min

Weaving the Fabric of the Universe: How astrophysics and textiles are helping researchers shape dark

According to their paper, weaving is perhaps the most appropriate artistic technique here “because digitally controlled looms can produce la

Oct 15, 2019
5 min

Chico MacMurtrie on Art, Humanity & The Robotic Church

On a brisk fall afternoon in Brooklyn’s Red Hook, just a few blocks from the East River, a community of robots huddles, dormant and immobili

Jul 15, 2019
5 min

When Color Kills: Toxic Pigments Through the Ages

Orpiment, or King’s yellow, can be found on ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls. The chemical name for this pigment is arsenic sulfide.

Apr 15, 2019
5 min

The New York City Subway: A ludicrous concoction of clashes

While NYC awaits its newest train car fleet, it's hard not to think back to IRT's now-abandoned City Hall Station, where the storied

Dec 28, 2018
5 min

Juvenescent Elation and Consumerism: The evolution of toy advertising

It’s June of 2018. The shelves are empty save for a layer of dust. A few brightly colored items are strewn haphazardly on the floor — a few

Oct 1, 2018
5 min

I Paint Dead People: The art of séances and mediumship

“Rosabelle, believe.” These were the words, shrouded inside a secret code, spoken by Harry Houdini (1874 — 1926) from beyond the grave to hi

Jul 1, 2018
6 min

Recovering Cultural Property Across the World: Interview with the FBI Art Crime program manager Tim

It was a crisp spring day in rural Indiana. Probably the wildflowers were just beginning to peak their heads above the soil; the birds were

Apr 1, 2018
5 min

Mind! Blown!: Body painting as high fashion

Up-tempo electronic music plays as a rapid-fire montage unfolds on the screen: quick flashes of contorted naked bodies, covered in paint, ca

Dec 31, 2017
6 min

The Future of Architecture is 3D Printed

What kind of futuristic visions does the term “3D printing” conjure up? Perhaps you think of plastic prototypes, small-scale models, or life

Oct 1, 2017
5 min

The Artistic Inspiration and Calculated Asymmetry Behind Japanese Cuisine

Think back to the last time you dined at your favorite sushi restaurant. When your California roll and salmon sashimi arrived, did you sit f

Jul 1, 2017
5 min

The New Nude: Female gaze, male gaze, and everything in between

They daringly elevate the naked body into the nude body; they provoke the viewer to question and explore myriad facets of the status quo.

Jul 1, 2017
6 min

Brief History of Public Erotic Art

It's clear that sex is the great unifier among cultures. Only relatively recently in the Western world has public erotic art been censored.

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