By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

Recreate The Shire with LEGO’s latest The Lord of the Rings set Sideshow and Iron Studios are proud to announce the latest from the Art Scale line – the Aragorn Unleashed 1:10 Scale Statue!

In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Aragorn travels into the haunted Paths of the Dead to seek the aid of the Army of the Dead. These restless spirits bound by an ancient ...

April 5, 2025 • Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

Why is art, craft and design education so vital to our culture, our society, our economy and ourselves? The reasons are myriad, meaningful, complex and fiscal says Lesley Butterworth of the National ...

Aragorn, Elrond, Arwen and Bilbo Baggins, alongside additional elves and a dwarf. There are a number of items too, including Bilbo's sword Sting, the broken shards of Narsil, Aragorn's ranger ...

The voice-overs are decent, too, especially John Hurt as Aragorn and Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum. On the other hand, Michael Scholes - who provides the voice for Sam - is rather campy and goofy, which ...

A musician’s query as to the origin of a warped ‘wolf’ tone, and a review of a book by physicist Marie Curie, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. A multi-century climate record ...