Scientists may have recovered DNA belonging to Leonardo da Vinci from a drawing and other objects he touched while alive. If ...

Sometimes the most meaningful art doesn’t start in an art store; it starts right where we are. From forgotten buttons to ...

Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object. Drawing an object and ...

CHM copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as ...

The Rev. Dr. William Scoresby 1789 to 1857. Like his father he rose to be captain of a whaling ship and was for some 30 years a successful whaler. While in the Arctic regions he surveyed the coasts of ...

Author Jordan Kauffman documents an important moment in recent history when architecture reasserted its cultural status through the showcasing of particular drawings. The episode begins in 1972 with ...