A French tradition since at least the 14th century, trompe l’oeil sweets are especially well suited to our social media age.

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From the 17th Century and Cubism to today, trompe l'oeil art endures. Are we hard-wired to love things that are not as they appear to be, asks Caryn James. In Which Is Which? (1890) by the ...

In some ways, artist Alexa Meade is a traditional figure painter, replicating the light and shadow that falls on the human body in a naturalistic way. But she works on an unusual canvas: the actual ...

Pixies were falling apart. Early proof could be found on Trompe le Monde, which arrived Sept. 23, 1991, with scarcely any notable contributions from Kim Deal. This sad conclusion was as dispiriting as ...