Google Figures Out How to Make People Care About Art: Selfies

The Google art app is actually a few years old. But the “Search with your selfie” feature, introduced in December, started catching on about a week ago, thanks in part to a BuzzFeed article and some old-fashioned internet virality. There was a nice irony to the rapid spread of art selfies across the web.

“L’état, c’est moi,” declared Louis XIV: “I am the state.” Louis was an absolute monarch, whose word was law, and serving France meant being personally loyal to Louis himself. There were obvious advantages to such a system: no ambiguity about where authority lay, no time wasted in legislative debates, …

“The Disaster Artist” – which just earned James Franco a Golden Globe for his portrayal of director Tommy Wiseau – tells the story of the making of “The Room,” a film that’s been dubbed “the Citizen Kane” of bad movies. Not everyone likes “The Room.” (Critics certainly don’t – it has a 26 percent rating on …

Update: Sources close to the situation tell Billboard that, “OVO didn’t source this artwork, they were presented it– it’s common to be presented with a whole pile of work to choose from that is referenced off older art.” After months of teasers and snippets of his new songs, Drake treated fans to the two-track EP …

Since it was screened, over 500 articles on plastics have appeared in British national publications alone. And just as the Blue Planet II crew described how they “collected every piece of plastic they came across while filming”, these plastic waste stories have motivated some people to take action. People …

Preschools have a single, all-important mission: getting kids ready to learn. Students should emerge knowing their letters, numbers, and shapes, as well as a certain level of emotional awareness. A recent study identifies a uniquely effective way to impart this foundational knowledge: immersion in the arts.

An Art Deco home owned by actor and producer Stuart Cornfeld and performance artist Johanna Went is on the market in Los Angeles for $2.65 million. The owners listed the three-bedroom home with quirky architectural details typical of the Streamline Modern design style—including rounded walls and …

3D imaging offers new views of these antirrhinum (snapdragon) buds. Credit: Karen Lee/Xana Rebocho/John Innes Centre. PDF version. When Elizabeth Kellogg finished her PhD in 1983, she feared that her skills were already obsolete. Kellogg studied plant morphology and systematics: scrutinizing the …

SENDAI–Japanese toilets may be world-renowned for their technology and complexity, but a small plumbing company here has elevated the lavatory game to an art form–literally. Taikou Juken Corp. took the white of toilet bowls as blank canvases to develop an innovative product, decorating them with …