Artworks are cultural achievements but often also achievements of science and engineering. It's easy to forget, for instance, that Impressionism's impulse to take to the countryside to paint in the open air owes a great debt to Winsor & Newton and other paint technicians developing portable paint tubes, allowing artists......
Los Angeles is an ephemeral art city, with a history of ramshackle studios, temporary stagings and artworks that go into books and museums yet all but disappear from the landscape. Pivotal artist David Hammons' old second-floor dance-hall studio, for instance, where, using grease, he printed parts of his body on......
