But what is the human form if not a pile of junk? We are, if one were to take a reductionist or mechanistic view, nothing more than a collection of bones, organs and muscles.

Artist Kumi Yamashita Creates an Amazing Human Figure Out of Shadow Coming soon to the National Portrait Gallery, an old art form gets reinvented ...

“Out of a Crisis: The Voices of Our Students” is a new series, launched by the Globe’s Great Divide team, that publishes student essays, poems, artwork, and videos featuring teenage ...

Great works of art are so powerfully imagined that their intent and expression mold to changing human circumstances. But the operas of Richard Wagner are arguably unique in this regard: No other ...

Japanese artist Kuronushi specialises in shadow art and glues together hundreds of pieces of cardboard to create themed dioramas that project a shadow artwork when light is cast on them from a ...

A man poses by an artwork by street artist Banksy, Friday, May 30, 2025 in Marseille, southern France. Credit: AP/Bishr Eltoni Though often political, Banksy’s art is just as often personal ...

Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people.