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A street mural of snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan now graces the side of the Spot On snooker club in Sheffield, England, but locals and fans of the sport complain that ...

When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical pixels: you place the beads on a plastic grid of pegs and then heat ...

Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering ...

Claude Monet's first paying work was caricature. At fifteen, he sold unflattering drawings of well-known men around Le Havre through a framing shop, and crowds gathered at the window to look at them. By his own later account, he was among the most ...

If you've ever been wowed by a cutaway illustration of a ship from your favorite sci-fi series or movie, there's a pretty good chance Matt Cushman had something to do with it. His visualizations of the guts of ships from Star Wars and Star Trek are ...

A French manuscript from about 1485 shows a woman spinning wool in her doorway while her child plays beside her. The doorway is the mouth of a giant snail shell. She lives there. Robert Testard painted it for Charles d'Angoulême, a count in ...

Charles le Brun (1619-90) drew a set of human heads that match the heads of animals: an ox, a fox, an eagle, a raven, a parrot, and a pig. Louis XIV put him in charge of the decoration of Versailles in 1669, and the palace pictures needed crowds of ...

Britain's Minstry of Justice has so far spent £85,300 removing a mural painted on a wall at the Royal Courts of Justice in London by Banksy, just one of several similarly costly removals. The spending was disclosed to the BBC through Freedom of ...

We're big fans of the classic Blackwing pencil (here's a 24-year-old post by Mark Frauenfelder from the depths of the Blackwing Dark Age), and its makers recently posted a video showing how they are made. Now you know how Blackwing pencils are made.

Doi Toshitsura was a feudal lord in Edo-period Japan who studied snow for about twenty years. His 1832 book of woodblock prints, Sekka Zusetsu, has eighty-six drawings of what he called "snow flowers" (sekka), plus a dozen more copied from a 1779 ...