Karl Simon visits Highgate Cemetery to show us the importance of contrast in black-and-white painting on a tablet.

Colette Laxton and Mark Curry use the two-color scheme for the packaging on the products for their company, the Inkey List, and as a philosophy for their relationship — “total honesty always ...

Public Domain Black soldiers in the Fourth U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, pictured at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C. The American Civil War marked a major turning point in the history of the United ...

Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.

The title of “Free for All: The Public Library” is usefully double edged. One of the many (many) things that make public libraries the wondrous institutions that they are is that, in this ...

Definition: A public domain work is a creative work that is not protected by copyright and which may be freely used by everyone. The reasons that the work is not protected include: (1) the term of ...

It’s a whole new year now, which means a bunch of other cultural works are now in the public domain, including a pack of popular standards from 1929.

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public domain.

Several iconic characters from 1929 are headed to the public domain this year, including the earliest versions of Popeye and Tintin.