Imagine a place where humans and dinosaurs live compatibly side by side. It already exists at least in James Gurney’s Dinotopia books, a door to which has been flung wide in the exhibition at the ...

We want to thank all of the readers who answered our call a few months ago for winter weather art. We were flooded with images of snowmen and sledding, ice skating and snowball fights. Alas, because ...

Learn how botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini keeps traditional artistic methods alive in the increasingly digital world of science Emma Saaty Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has ...

Spy x Family has just returned for the second half of its debut season, and what better way to celebrate that fact than with some lovely new visuals, all courtesy of series creator Tatsuya Endo. These ...

Artist unknown, "The cowpox afflicted hand of Sarah Nelmes" (1798), hand-colored engraving on paper, 244 x 207 mm (all images courtesy the Posner Memorial Collection, Carnegie Mellon University ...

ALL who grow Cacti will be glad to learn that the third volume of this fine work has been issued. It will probably appeal to a larger number ofj Cactus fanciers than the two preceding volumes/ because ...

Scientific illustrations, Humboldt once wrote, should “speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind.” His famous illustration of Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador shows plant species living at different ...