Bluebonnet paintings offer a sweetly fractured view of Texas history. Just for example: When legislators were deciding whether the cactus flower, the cotton boll or the bluebonnet should be the ...

Winter may be the most challenging season for artists to depict. Art critic Jason Farago picks the best works from this frosty period. Winter may be the most challenging season for artists to depict.

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life".

"When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees," the painter Agnes Martin told an interviewer in 1989. She wasn't being oblique, or at least no more so than usual.

Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters takes a multi­media strategy in her new show at James Harris Gallery, “what stays the same is never so.” Along with paintings and a powerful art installation ...

Amy Sherald’s official portrait of Michelle Obama made her famous. But her other portraits, on view in a traveling retrospective, are far better.

The Venice paintings of 2009 represent a different kind of marathon: During a six-month residency in a studio on the Grand Canal, Kjartansson hung out with his friend, the artist Pall Haukur ...

Immanuel Kant’s work is considered the pinnacle of the philosophy of the Enlightenment. What lessons can we learn from Kant? Where did Kant fall short? This is what our special edition on Kant is all ...

The eerie stencil paintings of human hands in Spanish caves might not be from humans at all. New dating methods of the paintings suggest some of the cave art could have been drawn by Neanderthals.

Dieses Essay wurde beim „Sapere Aude“ Essay-Wettbewerb des Goethe-Instituts USA eingereicht und erreichte den dritten Platz unter den High-School-Einreichungen. Ursprünglich auf Englisch verfasst, ...