T he “world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist” has sold a portrait of Alan Turing – the codebreaking trailblazer of modern computer science – for over $1 million. The sale marks the first work of ...

Some of the best Chrome OS laptops support the USI 2.0 standard, and those that don't often work decently with capacitive pens. A precise, dependable stylus makes it easy to scribble notes ...

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 Through Jan. 26, 2025, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, 212-535-7710; metmuseum.org. The show travels to the National Gallery ...

1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all things, became the center of Western art. Gold was prettier. Wood was tougher. Textile and ivory, both well represented here ...

so none of it pools in unwanted areas when you put paint to plastic. It’s a fine art you’ll develop through repeated practice. You work these layers up, gradually, letting each super-thin coat dry ...

Their names are written on a piece of paper on the floor in the painting. Absent from this list ... Edward Town from the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the boy was called James ...

One such work is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s very own Madonna and Child (ca. 1300), a tempera and gold painting on wood panel that measures no more than 11 inches on its longest side.