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See Picasso’s Lesser-Known Print Works, Which He Continued Experimenting With Into His 80s

A new exhibition spotlights the Spanish artist’s printmaking talents, which he began honing in his 20s. In the decades that followed, he produced thousands of breathtaking creations Julia Binswanger Daily Correspondent Pablo Picasso is most famous for his role in the Cubist movement, creating abstract paintings that showed a subject from multiple perspectives. Now, a new exhibition atContinue reading “See Picasso’s Lesser-Known Print Works, Which He Continued Experimenting With Into His 80s”

How Americans Got Hooked on Counting Calories More Than a Century Ago

A food history writer and an influential podcast host tell us how our thinking about health and body weight has—and hasn’t—evolved ever since Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters took the nation by storm Chris Klimek In 1918, Lulu Hunt Peters—one of the first women in America to earn a medical doctorate—published the best seller Diet and HealthContinue reading “How Americans Got Hooked on Counting Calories More Than a Century Ago”

See You Later, Wobbulator

Exploring Nam June Paik’s innovative use of technology to transform video art. Smithsonian American Art Museum What’s in a Wobbulator? What is it? Where did it come from? Recently, SAAM acquired a “Wobbulator” built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for its Nam June Paik Archive and were able to share a working replicaContinue reading “See You Later, Wobbulator”