In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp ...

Claude Monet’s palette of blues, Vincent van Gogh’s bright yellows, the city of Oaxaca’s vibrant red and a Chicago-style hot dog. They’re all forms of inspiration in artist Chip Fesko’s watercolor ...

After Marcel Stewart was arrested following a misunderstanding with police, he started to paint “from the belly.” He was detained for 10 hours after police mistook his gestures for aggression when he ...

Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math education, say psychologist Véronique Izard of Université ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

All eyes are on Brazil's World Cup but a new Royal Academy exhibition showcases a different kind of South American artistry, and makes a stunning case for the continent's geometric art In 1943, the ...

MODERN speculations on the Foundations of Geometry have raised the question of the character of Geometry as a science, and the question has been answered in different ways. Some writers have held that ...

Geometrical astronomy: one of the ancient tablets. (Courtesy: Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver) Ancient Babylonian astronomers may have used geometry to calculate the motion of ...

I SEE your reviewer of Prof. Veronese's book on “Abstract Geometry” says: “Apparently this method” (that of pure geometry, free from axes, algebraic processes, &c.) “has not previously been applied to ...