Being pretty isn’t usually the prerogative of the humble cutting board, which spends most of its time getting hacked at, covered in a mess of food. But with Shape Boards, Brooklyn-based design firm ...

Julian Stanczak, a leading member of the Op Art movement and influential professor of art, died at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio on March 25. Stanczak was widely known for his vividly-colored canvases ...

Driving down Madison Avenue in 1965, artist Bridget Riley noticed storefronts filled with eye-catching frocks whose prints had been lifted straight from her wild, colorful paintings. Horrified, Riley ...

This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of visual ...