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Houses inspired Hopper's work during the summers he spent in the seaside city in the 1920s.
Judges for the pop-writing awards are locked in a hotel room and must defend their nominations.
July 25, 2007 · Ray Murphy claims to be have invented chainsaw art back in 1953 when, as an 11-year-old, he inscribed four-letter words on the woodpile behind his dad's shed. Since then, Ray has sawed 50,000 sculptures. But even more notable are his mind-boggling chainsaw feats. He has sawed the numbers one through 10 in a toothpick, and the entire alphabet in a No. 2 pencil.
July 22, 2007 · Paul Poiret, the self-described "King of Fashion," is largely credited for freeing women from corsets and introducing them to pantaloons. A major retrospective of the French designer's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates his eclectic designs.
July 23, 2007 · A French museum was displaying a Cy Twombly painting. It's nine by six feet, untitled, white, and valued at $2 million. A woman named Sam Rindy kissed it. She left a lipstick stain, and got arrested. But she says, "I found the painting even more beautiful. The artist left this white for me."
July 15, 2007 · On the 40th anniversary of his first illustrated book, Eric Carle has come full circle. His new book, Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? will line bookstore shelves later this year, and Carle says it may be his last children's book. Web Extra: See a Slideshow of Carle's Work
July 11, 2007 · John Szarkowski, former chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has died. Szarkowski was a major influence in photography world in the latter half of the 20th century.
July 9, 2007 · For more than six years, President Bush has given political cartoonists plenty of fodder. But enough already. Some of them say they're ready to turn their pens on new targets. Web Extra: Cartoons from the Exhibit
July 7, 2007 · Rashid Diab's paintings evoke the tragedies of famine and war in his country, but he hopes that they'll bring new energy and optimism to his countrymen.
July 2, 2007 · Think global warming, and then think fun. It's not such an odd juxtaposition. At least that's the thinking behind a public art project in Chicago called "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet."
June 25, 2007 · 19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.
June 1, 2007 · Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, who left his country in 1992 but still has family there, wanted to bring into sharp focus what it's like to be constantly worried about personal safety. So he moved into a gallery in Chicago and invited computer users across the country to shoot paintballs at him — through the Internet.
May 31, 2007 · Art theft has turned into a global industry that experts believe now fuels everything from terrorism to drug-running. At least one art sleuth puts art crime (including stolen antiquities and forgeries) behind only drug and arms-trafficking as the third-most-lucrative criminal activity in the world ($2 to $6 billion a year).
May 28, 2007 · Aerial photographer Michael Collier captures radiant landscape images of the Earth from a single-engine airplane, all the while steering the aircraft with his feet.
Venetian art and architecture reveal centuries of cultural exchange with the Islamic world.
Houses inspired Hopper's work during the summers he spent in the seaside city in the 1920s.
Think global warming, then think fun. That's the concept behind a public art project in Chicago.
