What is known is that the painting was made by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region. The San had a profound knowledge of their environment, which they ...

A transformation was needed, and a crisp, fresh coat of white paint on the bookcases was the perfect solution. Step 1: Sand the workpiece. To begin, I gave each bookcase a good sanding with my ...

A week after a gunman fired a bullet at Donald Trump, grazing his right ear and cementing him among his supporters as a kind of mythic folk hero, Isabelle Brourman asked to paint him. She’d been ...

Is it an acid, base, or neutral? Make your own acid-base indicator from red cabbage, then test various household substances. Acids and bases are classes of materials that have different properties.

Wild cabbage is one vegetable that hunter-gatherers may have found while foraging for Stone Age foods. However, the ...

Paint, plastic and flashbulbs: What the visionary artist achieves with those materials is astounding in its effect. By Max Lakin “About Time,” a retrospective opening in Boston, comes at a ...

Cabbage is excellent finely sliced and eaten raw in salads. When cooked, the briefest cooking methods, such as steaming or stir-frying, are best. Apart from red cabbage, which breaks the rule and ...

Paint bubbling on walls is an unattractive, oftentimes surprising outcome that many DIY painters face after completing a paint job. But what causes it? “When paint on walls appears to bubble, it ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

Try shredding red cabbage finely and braising it for two to three hours with oil, spices, red wine vinegar, apple, stock and brown sugar for a sticky, caramelised side dish to game dishes ...