Art & Design

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Two Belgian beavers
From a sneezing moose to a real-life angry bird, this year’s competition received a whopping more than 10,000 entries from 112 countries
Large broken sculptural form displayed in a courtyard with arched columns, viewed by a nearby person.
The show, on view in Florence and coming to D.C. next year, examines the history and impact of destroyed sculptures throughout time and across cultures
A woman with black hair and graying bangs, wearing a T-shirt with a print of a ramen bowl and an apron, holds up a brayer (small paint roller brush) and a gray linoleum tile with a black design of several cartoon-like characters. Behind her are finished prints on paper and more tools hanging on the wall.
The fertile grounds of California’s Central Valley yield more than an abundance of produce—25 percent of the food consumed in the United States, in fact. For generations, opportunities in agriculture have drawn migrant populations here from . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Mountains sans Clouds
Calder’s final work, “Mountains and Clouds,” was removed from the Hart Senate Office Building in 2014 over fears about its structural integrity
A life-sized cow carved out of butter.
Learn more all about SAAM’s regional Emmy featuring this udderly charming butter cow sculpture.
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“Ghost Story of Yotsuya on the Tōkaidō,” Tsukioka Kogyo, woodblock print, 1899, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
This tale of betrayal is an enduring Japanese ghost story.
The Old Musician
The sketch of a young girl, in the red chalk characteristic of Manet’s 1860s life studies, is thought to be linked to several of the artist’s paintings
A man wearing a brown shirt and stripped beanie tunes an electric guitar while sitting in a canoe on the water under gray skies.
In his latest album, Nollman draws from fifteen years of audio recorded through underwater microphones in what may have been the world’s first underwater music recording studio.