To gain a better understanding of the philosophical ideals of aesthetics, and their influence on the arts, one should go back at least to Ancient Greece. There is evidence of philosophers turning ...

In a recently published paper 1, I asked, “Could Robert Motherwell have been as great an artist if he were not so articulate?” I proposed that the answer to this question is, no. While we might ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House. So yesterday, ...

A new study suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences as how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well ...