Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters ...

Mystics and mathematicians alike saw geometry as something truly special: the pattern of existence itself! They all agreed ...

Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

Abstract: Despite its significant progress, cross-modal retrieval still suffers from one-to-many matching cases, where the multiplicity of semantic instances in another modality could be acquired by a ...

BEFORE World War II, abstract art was dominated by the geometrical and almost architectural paintings that grew out of cubism and culminated in Piet Mondrian’s austere compositions in primary red, ...

Welcome to Al-Monitor Riyadh. Have you ever wondered what Saudis once wore several decades and even centuries ago? An exhibition in Ithra’s Gallery 2 showcases both historical and contemporary designs ...

For the first time in 20 years, the American artist returns to Austria with a new show at Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska. Peter Halley, No Other Choice (2025). © Peter ...

Davide Balliano’s “Abacus” is at Tina Kim Gallery through March 7, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni. If a formal rhythm—both mathematical and symbolic—can be ...

Piet Mondrian died in 1944, aged seventy-one, and by the time of his death he had pushed the concept of abstraction in painting on into the field of the non-objective and beyond it, into areas where ...