The Golden Age of children’s book illustration is understood to have run more or less from 1860 to 1930. The spread of literacy, newfangled methods of production and an almost mystical efflorescence ...

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some ...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Visually, this is a very simple work of art. There are just two elements, both clearly rendered: a pipe, and a caption that reads Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is ...

A collage comprised of 5,000 images taken over the course of 13 years by digital artist Beeple will become the first of its kind to go under the hammer at a major auction house, Christie’s has ...