Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...

African artists are making waves in the world of botanical art, adding their own unique touch to the centuries-old tradition ...

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

In 2020, the Denver Botanic Gardens finished its master makeover plan. Among the new additions was a brand new center meant to unite science, art, and just the plain joy of looking at plants. Then the ...

Do you like the pretty flowers? So do I. But I’ll get to that in a minute. Now, I don’t want to beat a dead horse. But I’m just going to mention (again) that the Best of Phoenix Wonderland art opening ...

BRIGHTON, UK — Tucked behind an aging mews of terraced houses in the historic city of Cambridge is a hidden modernist science facility. Negotiating tight security and an immaculate grey gravel drive, ...

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

It takes a lot of energy to perceive the world, and evolution favors energy efficiency. As a result, the human brain does a terrific job of learning to filter things out. We lose the details of our ...