ONE of the most dazzling tidbits in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s big show “The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820” is enshrined in a gallery devoted to silver. A richly ornamented chalice made ...

Chris Maynard is obsessed with feathers. The artist, based in Olympia, Wash., thinks feathers show “life’s perfection,” in the way that they overlap and contour to a bird’s body. “Their complexity as ...

New imaging breakthrough: Scientists developed noninvasive techniques to study fragile Qing dynasty tian-tsui featherworks without causing damage. Multi-bird composition: Analysis found feathers from ...

Rather than being created by pigment molecules, structural color is created by tiny, ordered structures in the feathers that ...

The ancient art of Hawaiian feather work is spreading its wings with unprecedented displays in San Francisco and Honolulu — and a unique chance to learn more about it from an artist who splits his ...

Those who visit a small gallery tucked away in an alley on Canyon Road often do a double take when they see the tiny, intricate details painted on feathers. Santa Fe artist Patricia Marin-Miranda said ...

Say the words “feather art,” and people probably won’t know what you’re talking about. Tribal headdresses? Ostrich-plume hats? If you’re drawing a blank, head to the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art ...

MINDORO, Wis. – An old saying is that if something looks like a turkey and gobbles like a turkey, it’s a turkey. But instead it could be Jeff Fredrick, Wisconsin’s 12-time turkey-calling champion.

Ian Davie's painted feathers: The former gamekeeper only picked up a paintbrush for the first time in 2004, and now his works sell for around £700 each. Credit: Photo: BARCROFT Mr Davie, 44, collects ...

Neandertals may not have painted pictures on cave walls, but a new study proposes they had an artistic sensibility. These close Stone Age relatives of people regularly made personal and possibly ...

There’s no shortage of talented artists in Nova Scotia, but in her small Greenwood, N.S. studio, Cynthia Henry is creating some magical works of art, using a very unconventional canvas. “Feather art ...