9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

Since 1986, Costa Rica has repatriated 3,650 archaeological assets from the United States and Europe. Last month, 395 of those artifacts arrived from Costa Rican diplomatic headquarters in Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C., where they had been held for about a decade. The U.S. Embassy assisted with the process, according to a release by […]

“It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” This was the verdict of Mike Essl, dean of the art school at New York’s Cooper Union, in a recent video interview about the challenges artificial intelligence is bringing to art schools, including whether this new tool—much like the camera before it—qualifies as a medium […]

In 2020, scientists at Purdue University developed a new super-white acrylic paint that reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight. Since then, they’ve made it even whiter, with a new formula that has increased sunlight reflection to 98.1 percent, which sets the whitest paint record with Guinness World Records. “We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s […]