A new system developed by MIT researchers called “MosAIc” is finding hard-to-spot similarities between art pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. MosAIc scans an image, ...

William Deresiewicz sees a crisis in the arts, and he needs you to stop it. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be that simple, because the problem comes from something that is increasingly woven into ...

Contemplation, not clicks: Our critic looks back on marble sculptures in Rome, songs of “atmospheric anxiety” and the Frick Collection in a new light. By Jason Farago From left: A performer in ...

When it comes to fine art, there is scarcely a collector who hasn't been fooled or almost fooled by an extremely well-crafted fake being passed off as a masterpiece by an artistic giant like Raphael, ...

Audrey G. Bennett receives funding from the NEH and NSF. Ron Eglash receives funding from the NSF. The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of ...

AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been making its presence more and more each day in every facet of our lives! Love it or hate it — it is here to stay — and we might as well learn to navigate and ...

Plus: how YouTube's recommendation algorithm is failing its users This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's ...