Reading the detailed descriptions of works exhibited in art galleries makes viewers happy, according to a new study. Visitors to a modern art museum displayed more "excitement" and "positivity" when ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

This stream is a creative deep dive into art history with a live drawing twist. We researche influential artists, important art movements, and the surprising events that shaped visual culture, then ...

The new research posits museums and galleries as “accessible, non-clinical spaces for preventive health promotion,” per the ...

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 ...

The Cincinnati Art Museum is opening its renovated ground floor after more than a year of construction. The space contains new classrooms for art making and an art study center. Emily Agricola Holtrop ...

It may seem obvious that looking at an artwork is less depressing than staring at the sad gray enclosure of your office cubicle, but now, there is research to back it up. A new research study found ...

Our memory of art may not be as subjective as we previously thought, according to a new study from UChicago’s Brain Bridge Lab and published in PNAS—the first real-world experiment of this type. The ...

It doesn't like to brag as much as the more famous "City Other" to the north, but the Duke City also has a lot going on when ...