'Draw or Die' documentary by NC filmmaker spotlights artist Minnie Evans
The vibrant, serene patterns of Minnie Evans’ drawings are instantly recognizable, but during her life, she was an outsider to mainstream art institutions.
Visual Arts
These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads
Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.
All For One And One For Four: Turner Prize Finalists Decide To Split Honor
The award is typically given to just one visual artist born or based in the U.K. But this year, its four politically committed finalists asked to make a "collective statement" — and got their wish.
Blind Art Lovers Make The Most Of Museum Visits With 'InSight' Tours
"Sight isn't the only pathway to understand art," says Carol Wilson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. There, specially trained docents lead tours using sound, description — and even touch.
The Art of Creating Creatures: Ian Dennis
Radio Camper Sloan McCrea interviews visual artist Ian Dennis, known for his stuffed monsters and aliens.
A 'New' Rembrandt: From The Frontiers Of AI And Not The Artist's Atelier
A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
What Might Rouhani Have Missed When Rome Boxed Up The Nudes?
NPR's Scott Simon wonders if Iranian President Hassan Rouhani might have appreciated a moment to gaze at the many works of art in Rome's Capitoline Museum, rather than seen the naked statues boxed up.
Is This Snowy Wonderland Or The World Inside A Petri Dish?
Artist Rogan Brown peers into the invisible worlds of microbes, then uses their forms as the inspiration for large paper sculptures that seem at once familiar and profoundly alien.