The elements of art provide a common language for exploring the aesthetics of visual art. The aesthetics of basketball deserve a similar set of tools. Put a Jasper Johns painting next to a Roy ...

Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up your spine. This is the phenomena that is called ...

This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine. Often, it ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

Studio of Tawaraya Sôtatsu, “Boats upon Waves” (17th C.) with the reflection of Nawa Kohei;s “PixCell-Deer #24” (2011) (all photos by author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) I always consider ...

This post was written by Sarah Rezaei and Hansika Kapoor, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala. Palaeolithic rock art is one of the first specimens of humans creating art for art ...

How does one classify art? What makes something art? What is Indian art? In what direction is art in India heading towards? Though an hour is hardly enough time to answer all these questions, Alka ...