In “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things,” Katy Kelleher considers her desire for rare or pretty objects, as both life-affirming and morally problematic. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

In 1994, Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid set out to create America’s most beautiful painting. The result was striking: a verdant lakeside scene complete with trees, deer, ...

The following excerpt is from Nick Kary’s Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age (Chelsea Green Publishing, September 2024) and is reprinted with permission from the ...

Some people assume that there's a type of beauty that everyone can agree on. But did early humans really admire slender bodies the way we do today? After all, fashions come and go—there have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mother and daughter at an art gallery Staring at beautiful objects really can spark inspiration, a study suggests. Researchers at ...

Visiting Collective Design amid all of Frieze Week's art fairs is doubly refreshing: it's an unabashed celebration of beautiful objects and you can touch (almost) all of them. Isamu Noguchi, “Untitled ...

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Some people assume that there’s a type of beauty that everyone can agree on. But did early humans really admire slender bodies the way we do today? After all, fashions come and go – there’s been ...