Richard Taylor receives funding from The Australian Research Council, The Research Council for Science Advancement, and The WM Keck Foundation. Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” ...

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For most of the last four decades, Pattern and Decoration art seemed wonderfully outré to many observers, an eccentric violation of the standards and norms of serious painting and sculpture that was ...

Over the past six years, the High has more than quintupled its holdings of quilts made by Black women—many of which are on view in this fascinating but approachable show. A quilt by an unidentified ...

Steve Burn isn’t typically the type to try things he sees on YouTube. “I’m not normally that adventurous,” says Burn, of Kirkwood. Then he watched videos of people pumping 6,000 volts of electricity ...

BENNINGTON — Many of artist Barbara Ackerman’s works have one-word titles, such as “Momentum,” “Consider” and “Significance.” “It’s just evolved,” she said, when asked about the brevity. “Maybe ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered why our eyes are drawn to patterns? We see patterns in art and music, and also in our daily lives. Patterns can provide a sense of order and can make a ...