Tag: art

The talk of the art world was an exciting avant garde painter named Pierre Brassau, except that Pierre Brassau was a big old hoax.

Spider webs are works of art, but also extremely practical. New research that finds they may be even more practical than we realized.

For our season finale, the story of a murder in small town Missouri that people couldn’t explain… or by some accounts they just wouldn’t.

Andy Warhol made a mark with his paintings of Campbell's Soup cans, though the company wasn’t immediately thrilled with his work.

Today in 1972, a break-in at the Watergate hotel that kicked off a huge political scandal... and also, somehow, gave a gelatin dessert the name "Watergate salad."

There's a new musical work that is, maybe, kind of, sort of from a composer who’s been gone for several years.

A lot of people are trying to do something to help coral reefs these days. Now, those people can some help themselves from a robot.

Today in 2003, the filing of a lawsuit that led to a fascinating and significant phenomenon here in the Information Age: it’s known as the Streisand Effect.

There are lots of ceremonies and events in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, and there are lots of monuments you can visit too. Though some of Dr. King’s biggest fans might steer you away from some of those monuments.

Today in 2020, Wausau, Wisconsin's long-running and notorious ban on snowball fights was finally off the books! Though there was actually more to the story than the uproar suggested.

Today in 1935, the birthday of Walter De Maria, an artist behind one of the most unusual art installations you’ll ever come across: a loft in New York that he filled with dirt.

Today in 1951, the birth of Barry Marshall, a Nobel Prize winning doctor who, while working with colleague Robin Warren, proved what was behind most ulcers by giving himself an ulcer.