‘A child could have done that’ is modern art’s most banal criticism, but in the case of Jackson Pollock, the cynics are actually right. The US artist of the abstract expressionist movement was the ...

Pointing gestures in Old Master paintings "significantly" influence how viewers look at them, suggests a new study. People looking at the works of art are "drawn" to the faces of the pointing ...

Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock’s work is undeniably more sophisticated ...

An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science. Researchers from ...

Climate change threatens to erase some of the world’s oldest cave art dating back 45,000 years, according to an alarming new study that shows the priceless works peeling off the wall. The findings, ...

To those outside of the art world, the astronomical amount of money collectors spend at auction can be hard to comprehend. Why would someone pay $12 million for Damien Hirst’s “The Physical ...

If you study science — and I haven’t since high school, so bear with me — you probably understand that correlation is not the same as causation. Just because two phenomena seem to be connected doesn’t ...