Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” or “aesthetic” are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather than utilitarian ...

(a) ancient rock engravings in Shuwaymis, Saudi Arabia, provided insights in historic local fauna and ecosystems (photo by ...

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 ...

What can be conveyed with a circle or a square or a slender band of color? Perhaps it’s an outline of architecture. Or a pattern that summons a musical beat. Or the sensation in the retina when a ray ...

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Monday, May 16, 2022 3:43 p.m. | Monday, May 16, 2022 3:43 p.m. The people in these images truly are men and women of steel. They are individuals who labored to create the ...

The idea of textile patterns of the Renaissance may not get your blood boiling, but there’s no denying that the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Fashion and Virtue: Textile ...

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

“We connect after dinner (with a burning paper and a falling stone)” by Michael Van Winkle is on display at Albany Library’s Pine Hills branch on Western Avenue. Richard Garrison’s “New Fiction Color ...