When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and ...

From singing to dancing to sculpture, do animals make art? It could be argued that the making of sculptures or courtship displays have a very specific purpose, that of seduction.

Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...

In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.” The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with a gap in the middle, resulting in what ...

The painter’s portraits reveal less a tortured loner than a man who thrived in company. By Michael Prodger Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a compulsive portraitist, and an odd one. Portraiture is the ...

Artists’ private lives have long informed the curiosity of others, their romantic partnerships even more so, with numerous books, exhibitions, and online listicles addressing this particular ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shawn Simpson, University of Pittsburgh (THE CONVERSATION) In the forests of ...

Art can manifest in the most surprising ways, and British artist Justin Bateman takes this idea to a whole new level. He transforms simple pebbles and stones into breathtaking mosaics—portraits, ...

In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as "bowers." The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with a gap in the middle, resulting in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with a gap in the ...