On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look similar to ...

Sandy Rodriguez is a painter but also, on some level, a scientist, an art historian, a botanist, an outdoorswoman, and maybe even an alchemist. By Ted Loos Painting a floral still life or a landscape ...

A statesman for whom painting became a refuge, Winston Churchill created hundreds of works, some of which have sold at elevated prices in recent years. By Milton Esterow Winston Churchill, whose fiery ...

Art and science can seem two opposites on a spectrum. One is creative and interpretive, the other exact and empirical. But an emerging technology known as Pure Structural Colour – dubbed the “boldest, ...

Ann Purcell first wanted to paint after reading W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Moon and Sixpence. The book, which draws inspiration from the life of Paul Gauguin, details how Vincent van Gogh learned ...