Arts & Design

At five dollars for 99 pieces of the Darkest Classical Music ever written, it's easy to get into a symphonically nasty post-holiday funk.

A candidacy we heartily commend: vote to make this commemorative Apollo stamp the US representative in a new gallery of International stamps at the Smithsonian�s National Postal Museum.

A robot that solves Rubik's cube with Sisyphean aplomb, an avatar of something like the opposite of the uncanny valley.

The graffiti artist MadC's massive, tour-de-force narrative painting recounts a trip through her own inventive, techno-dystopian mind.

2010 is the year fabrication technology and 3D printing came to the masses�or at least to Brooklyn. But is this a good thing?

Mixtape and turntable, meet the collectible bubble-gum card.

The movie that inspired science fiction cinema offers the first making-of pictures in the history of the genre.

In space, no one can hear you munch your popcorn. Video after the jump.

This flat-pack pinhole camera doubles as a postcard to offer something like a photo-sharing snail-net. But the sentiment that motivates its ad campaign is bizarre.

Kinetic art that evokes the march of time and the dance of line.