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 ...

Recently, I’ve seen that many people in the Western world have begun to question our general collective aversion to color. Real estate agents recommend keeping walls in neutral colors and investing in ...

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 ...

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” ...

The Iranian artist Monir Sahroudy Farmanfarmaian has played a long game. A high point came last year with the opening of the Monir Museum at the Negarestan park gardens in Tehran. The museum is ...

“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 ...