One of my clearest memories from high school in the late 1980s isn’t a specific party, but the hunt for one. A car full of friends, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” blasting on the stereo, driving through ...

The movement in five works. By Julia Halperin One of the earliest and most famous conceptual artworks is “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp: a porcelain urinal the artist submitted to an exhibition in 1917.

“I got it years ago from my mother-in-law,” Kathy Hecht explained to Bob DuMouchelle at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal day at the downtown gallery and auction house. “She got it from her aunt.” ...

An assessment of Frederick's public art found that 19 city-owned works reviewed require maintenance, offering the city its first detailed look at the condition of its collection and how to preserve it ...

Brian Hofer, an Oakland, Calif.-based privacy advocate, criticizing the city’s new speed camera enforcement program. Hofer argued that without stronger enforcement mechanisms, such as tying fines to ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which summarizes achievement at the end of a unit, formative assessment happens ...

AI-generated art is controversial. I had many thoughts about the Studio Ghibli-AI trend that became popular a few months ago; it was disrespectful to the artists and the worlds they created, and it ...

If you or your students are surprised by summative assessment results, consider how you’re using formative assessments. Think about a runner preparing for a big race. The goal on race day—the ...

Formative assessment isn’t a final judgment, it’s part of the learning itself. It happens during teaching, not after. As Bell and Cowie (2002) defines it, it’s “assessment which provides feedback to ...