Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial changed how we remember war. We’ll talk with her about her latest and, she says, last public memorial — a monument to vanishing species.

It’s been called “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” We’ll talk with the artist behind it, and the reporter who tells his story.

Does Athens’ big, new, ultra-modern Acropolis Museum give Greece a fresh claim on the Elgin Marbles, spirited away by a British lord two centuries ago? We’ll step into the fray.

Philosopher and author Denis Dutton on why the human love of art is at the heart of our survival as a species.

Filmmaker Wayne Wang, director of “The Joy Luck Club,” on Chinese- American life now and his new film, “The Princess of Nebraska.”

America is in the middle of a tattoo craze. Forty percent of Americans aged 26 to 40 have been tattooed. More than a third of Americans 18 to 25 have already been inked somewhere — sometimes in ways shocking to their elders.
But the U.S. tattoo culture is nothing compared to some of the world’s body [...]

More than any other artist, Picasso left his mark on the 20th century. In his long life — 92 years of it — he enjoyed gargantuan fame, glittering friends, and a lavish lifestyle. And he created an immense output of art, which he described as his “diary.”
Now Picasso’s biographer, John Richardson, is out with the [...]

Ever read a passage in a book, or hear a bit of music, and think, “how did they do that? How did the author or composer get inside my head?”
Well, science writer Jonah Lehrer says that artists have a pretty good track record understanding the subtleties of our minds — often well ahead of scientists.
Whitman, [...]