Earlier today I was flipping through my RSS feed of geoscience journals and clicked on the title of particularly juicy-looking paper. To my delight, a beautiful illustration was embedded below the ...

Including pictorial summaries of each article on the table-of-contents pages of a journal makes it just that little bit easier to browse — rather than search — the scientific literature. The concept ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Untitled, 2022. In the winter of 2012, New York’s Museum ...

A retrospective celebrating the 110th anniversary of Yu Young-kuk (1916–2002), a pioneer of Korean abstract painting, has ...