One of the biggest painting mistakes you can make happens before you even pick up a brush — choosing your paint color based on a color chip. We’ve all done it. You pick out a nice color from the strip ...

Small paintings are often the best. “Miniature,” as Gaston Bachelard once wrote, “is one of the refuges of greatness.” This Pierre Bonnard painting at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is not ...

The animal world is incredibly colorful, and behind this color palette is a constant game of survival. Most animals use camouflage, covering themselves in stealthy patterns to hide from predators.

The painting was jointly acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Detail of painting attributed to C.R. Parker, Portrait of Frederick (c. 1840), which has ...

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At the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, Minnesota, you'll find a painting that seems to go on forever. It's called "The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World." At 1,275 feet long, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) brought a considerable number of changes across a full spectrum of American institutions. With so much being discussed in the news, it can be easy for the important ...

In a game like Hollow Knight: Silksong, where a mere pixel can ruin an entire ruin, it's important to be properly informed. While the second major patch for the devilish Metroidvania helpfully listed ...

I recently wrote about how children and adolescents who spend more time in digital environments than they do having real-world experiences (see "Getting Our Kids' Brains Back on Track"). One of the ...