Museums provide the first draft of art history. They decide which artists get to share wall space with masters like ...

On April 26, 1920, the nation lost Srinivasa Ramanujan a rare mathematical genius. His mathematical consciousness illuminated the world for eternity. This is not merely his death anniversary; it is a ...

The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic theory from the microscopic one; and then stitch them together in a single ...

On April 23, students, faculty, and religious at St. John’s gathered outside the university’s St. Thomas More Church to ...

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened with its historical collections in lively conversation ...

University of Chicago Prof. Frank Calegari has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. The first members elected ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, ...

It is not the appearance or typographical structure that is prized, but the concepts it embodies and the unexpected links it ...

where she joined an icon-painting school. Throughout her first year, “I was praying to our Lord, asking to look after my children if I don’t make it,” she recalls. “My mother recommended that I visit ...

To this he added- “Painting is like mathematics. Everything needs to be measured. Everything needs to be thought out. One time I had spent almost two days deciding where to put my signature.” ...