Joanna Koerten was a super star of the Dutch Golden Age. A new museum exhibition thrusts her back in the spotlight.

Paper cutting is an art form that possibly dates back to the invention of paper itself in China around 2,000 years ago. Since then, many cultures have developed their own unique styles. Special ...

Discover the fascinating art of cutting with paper in this informative video. Learn how to transform simple sheets of paper into intricate designs with various cutting techniques. Perfect for craft ...

Reading an actual book or newspaper may be falling to the wayside in today's hyper-digital age, given the ease and convenience of having (literally) millions of online publications and news items ...

Carolyn Guest can draw with scissors. The St. Johnsbury resident is one of only a handful of folk artists in Vermont devoted to the art of paper cutting. What began as a way to pass time as a child ...

A 20-second time-lapse video captures a couple of hours of work on a cut-paper piece by artist Ian Kuali’i (Native Hawaiian and Mescalero Apache). Here, Kuali’i is cutting along the sketched the ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into intricate patterns—that can automatically adapt in mid-air. The design has the potential to make air ...

Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: making parachutes more accurate by cutting them. Inspired by kirigami (the ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University held a Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop with Master Ming Liang Lu. “Cutting Through Culture: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop” was ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...