People constantly ask how I map complex graphics onto typography. They assume I use software to warp a digital image over a ...

Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call "beautiful" or "aesthetic" are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather than utilitarian ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. The authors begin ...

YONKERS “Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985,” at the Hudson River Museum, documents the last genuine art movement of the 20th century, which was also the first and only ...

Judy Ledgerwood, "First Color" (2022), oil on canvas, 15 inches x 15 inches (all images courtesy Denny Gallery) A lot of writers, myself included, have connected Judy Ledgerwood’s exuberant ...

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

The idea of textile patterns of the Renaissance may not get your blood boiling, but there’s no denying that the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Fashion and Virtue: Textile ...

Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” or “aesthetic” are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather than utilitarian ...