It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: a sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery helping an injured White Union soldier lost in hostile territory. When it was ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's latest collection features ceramic, fiber, photo and video installations from Korean artists — including massive pieces of embroidery created in and then smuggled out ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” is a complex and eclectic exhibition, and one that includes multiple subordinate themes. But in a way ...

“Do you feel free to play?” That's a question raised by a new public art installation in Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park on Boston Harbor. The interactive multimedia work was conceived before the ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Behavioral researchers have long known that humans are drawn to symmetry. But there are many different types of symmetries in the world and many shapes in which they appear. So which ones are the most ...

Shapeshifting (also known as transformation or transmogrification) is often defined as a change in form or shape of a person; it is also a change in appearance from one entity to another. Although ...