On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...