Emile-Allain Séguy was enamored with the overlooked wonders of the natural world. Namely, its insects, from the brilliant wings of butterflies to the less-loved forms of beetles, grasshoppers, ...

The first large look back at an irreverent style and its brief yet prescient life. By Roberta Smith ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — What is art history made of? Everything that happened within a given ...

Ndebele art, with its vibrant colors and geometric patterns, is making waves in the field of contemporary African ...

A new study reveals that famous abstract art may follow hidden mathematical patterns linked to human perception.

Pattern is a key part of organising and decorating design. In expressive art, pattern can be used to add variety to a composition, to reflect patterns used in the real world, or to help create a sense ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...