This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Annalisa Crannell goes to art museums with ...

It has been a year of celebration for the 80-year-old painter David Hockney, whose retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens next week. While in town, the artist gave a talk at the Film ...

As a mathematician, I expect that people at parties will tell me that they're no good at math. I'm used to my fellow professors confessing their ignorance of my subject. I understand that many of my ...

Below is my rough sketch for a cutaway of a house. I needed to draw a cutaway of house to go with a story that will be in the September/October issue of Smart. The story is about preparing your home ...

To Myron Barnstone, artistic skill is not genetic or a divine gift, nor is it learned through faithful copying. To be a master artist is not to be simply “creative.” Skill, no matter what medium, is ...

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