We Are Built to Forget

We are designed, scientists realized, not only to remember, but also to forget. The first of the neurotransmitters discovered was named anandamide, Sanskrit for bliss.

Meet the Artist Who Does Extreme Close-Ups of Utility Poles

Rosamond Purcell finds stories, landscapes, and more on their mottled surfaces.

Leng Jun

Leng Jun is a Chinese contemporary artist born in 1963, recognized for his Fine Art paintings of still lifes and detailed and realistic portraits of women.

How Renaissance Artisans Turned Live Animals into Silver

Lifecasting was the renaissance art of making sculptures using molds taken from real-life plants and animals.

From the cover of Solitude by amies x cxlt.

Found it here: https://chilledcow.bandcamp.com/album/solitude

A modified US 1 Dollar Coin with a Hidden Button for Clasping and Unclasping a Sword

Made by Roman Booteen.

Still playing with procreate

Generated Mountain Range

Another drawing I made today

Still very much a beginner :)

Another drawing I made today

Still learning :)

Just a digital drawing I made

I just started experimenting with Procreate and following some YouTube tutorials. Still a long ways to go :)

Spanish painter Juan Lucena honors Coronavirus victims with a painting

Spanish painter Juan Lucena painted this to honor all grandparents who died of coronavirus and couldn't say goodbye to their grandchildren.

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online - Rijksmuseum

Banksy depicts nurses as heroes

Collecting the world

This gallery explores the Museum's story of human cultural achievement through a collection of collections.

Researchers Reveal Hidden Details in Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'

New scans revealed the figure's now-faded eyelashes and green backdrop, but her identity remains a mystery

Sutton Hoo and Europe

Spanning over 700 years, this Room traces the story of Europe from 300 AD.

Rembrandt up close!

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.

Young Girls at the Piano - Auguste Renoir

In the early 1890s, friends and admirers of Renoir took exception to the fact that the French State had never made any official purchase from the painter, ...

Perfectly balanced as all things should be