From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

An artist and archaeologist has opened a new exhibition, inspired by a county's history and landscape. Dr Rose Ferraby's ...

The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources workshop Michaela Rife Chiura Obata, El Capitan, n.d., watercolor on ...

Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science. An Oregon State University-led collaboration ...

Maths is enabling a deeper dive into the evolution of artistic styles. Ancient artwork holds clues to past cultures, but even the most astute art historian would struggle to study thousands of ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...

Welcome to On View, a new feature exploring current visual art offerings throughout the city and beyond. Our first On View outing comes at a crossroads: With Vax Day in the rearview mirror, you might ...

Landscape as narrative is the operative concept of “Dawoud Bey: Elegy,” on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through Feb. 25. Dawoud Bey (born 1953) came to prominence in the 1970s with his ...

Spending time in nature reduces stress. A number of scientific studies have found it can help lower cortisol and blood pressure levels, and even alleviate depression and anxiety. While few of us these ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...