The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Groundbreaking art and science collaborations are reimagining how we understand—and survive in—a warming world.

Last week, we kicked off a first-anniversary celebration for Universe of Art, our science-meets-art spinoff podcast. A lot of listeners have written in since the start of the podcast, telling us about ...

When viewing paintings, people usually focus on what they can see. But often, the stories behind the painting — from how it was made to how it got to a museum — are just as interesting. “On the Same ...

At first glance, art and science might seem like opposite worlds — one driven by imagination and emotion, the other by data and precision — but at their core, both seek to explore and explain the ...

Reimagining rocket science through Octavia Butler’s vision of space and survival. American Artist reimagines the history of rocket science through the lens of Octavia Butler, blending speculative ...

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The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

Both art and science rest upon a single, necessary foundation: freedom of thought. The freedom to imagine and to create is ...