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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...

For generations of painters and admirers, rare and seldom-displayed landscape painting from China’s Song dynasty rank among the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. On view May 17–Oct. 26 ...

A watercolor landscape by 19th century British painter David Cox brought a surprise result at an auction in January. Valued at only £80–£100 by Derbyshire’s Hansons Auctioneers, the painting went on ...

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Up to seven artists and two curators will participate in a paid, 10-month intensive residency in New Haven, Connecticut. The residency program awards 17 visual artists a year of rent-free studio space ...

Whether it's a tree in the foreground or a ship off in the distance, artists put a lot of thought into the placement of each element on the canvas. Now, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of ...

I went to the Smithsonian American Art Museum recently looking for art from an age of pain, division or uncertainty — art that would speak to our current moment. Perhaps something from the First World ...

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 ...