'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' sees the Tower of London's famous dry moat filled with 888,246 poppies, one for each British and Colonial fatality during the war and creating a powerful visual commemoration for the First World War Centenary. The project is still ongoing with the last poppy bein...

Graphic art, is a traditional category of fine arts, including any form of visual artistic expression included in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and computer animation. Design in the graphic arts often includes typography but also encompasses original drawings, plans, and patterns fo...

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain...

Art critic, Alastair Sooke, investigates the fascinating rediscovery of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, one of fewer than 20 surviving paintings accepted as from the artist's own hand. ‘Salvator Mundi is a painting of the most iconic figure in the world by the most important artist of all time,’ says Lo

Luca Finotti for MADE IN BRAZIL presents: FRANCISCO LACHOWSKI, ALEXANDRE CUNHA and MARLON TEIXEIRA, seen through the lens of the magical mapping technique.

Ludwig von Hofmann was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Born: August 17, 1861, Darmstadt, Germany
Died: August 23, 1945, Pil...

In the near future, the North Pole could truly be relegated to the realm of history. Since scientists started measuring winter sea ice, we’ve lost half a million square miles of it—and for every additional ton of carbon dioxide in the air, about 32 square feet of summer sea ice disappears. Robin

Edvard Munch's The Scream sets a new record for any work of art ever sold at auction.It sold for $119,922,500, which includes the premium paid to Sotheby's. Previously, the most expensive artwork ever sold there was Pablo Picasso's painting "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," which brought in $106.5 mi...

Academy Award winner Helen Mirren stars in the incredible story of Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who is forced to flee Vienna during World War II. Decades later, determined to salvage some dignity from her past, Maria has taken on a mission to reclaim a painting the Nazis stole from her family: th...

Oceans cover 71% of the planet and are the source of life on Earth. Over a billion people, including some of the poorest in the world, depend on the oceans and wild seafood for survival. But our blue planet is under threat. Each day we remove more than the oceans can replenish. We are draining our o...