Thomas Crane, Interior of card, Marcus Ward (1880) (all cards from the collection of Peter Wadham, courtesy Patricia Zakreski) 1880 card by Helen Cordelia Angell, probably published by Marcus Ward ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

Aesthetics need not be bound to art and art objects. The Nilotic cattle-keeping peoples of the southern Sudan are a case in point. Coote examines what he calls the Nilotic "bovine aesthetic," which is ...

The Peacock Room Comes to America: Exhibiting Freer’s Bibles Photo by Hutomo Wicaksono It’s not the place you would expect to find the world’s third-oldest manuscript of the gospels. The jade-like ...

To most people, “symmetry” means the bilateral symmetry exhibited by, say, a butterfly, or the human face. That is, if you take a picture of a butterfly and draw a straight line down the middle of the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the past couple of years, TV shows have started to portray mental health — specifically trauma ...

The old mills on the west bank of the river in the old milling district must have seemed as permanent a part of the landscape in their heyday as the Falls of St. Anthony. The other day I was looking ...

The term aesthetics can be defined as the perception, interpretation, and appreciation of beauty. In the presence of beautiful things, we feel a broad range of emotions, such as fascination, awe, ...

OF the old feud between philosophy and poetry we all have heard, but I would ponder that older cleft between the poet and his fellow men. The tinge of antagonism against the artist, and of distrust of ...

At the beginning of the pandemic, Rian Phin, recently furloughed from her stressful job and struggling to create content, was living in a poorly lit townhome in Brooklyn with five roommates. When she ...