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Aesthetic Theory
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Independent of cultural background, people seem to share a sense of what makes certain color combinations aesthetically pleasing.
It may depend on whether you're an "easily empathetically embarrassed" person.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
Frank Slater’s book "Practical Portrait Painting" reveals the secrets of masters old and new, from Leonardo da Vinci to Augustus John.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
People who visit Florence seem strangely susceptible to Stendhal syndrome, which is blamed on an overwhelming sense of awe.
People can lose their authentic selves when they don't honestly confront life's potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.