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Astronomer Michelle Thaller explains the healing power of physics after losing her husband.
Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called "cartophilately."
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Studying neuroscience through art.
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi" can help.
Who should be compensated?
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.
Is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.
Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.
Frank Slater’s book "Practical Portrait Painting" reveals the secrets of masters old and new, from Leonardo da Vinci to Augustus John.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here's a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.