The elements of art provide a common language for exploring the aesthetics of visual art. The aesthetics of basketball deserve a similar set of tools. Put a Jasper Johns painting next to a Roy ...

Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up your spine. This is the phenomena that is called ...

This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine. Often, it ...

Studio of Tawaraya Sôtatsu, “Boats upon Waves” (17th C.) with the reflection of Nawa Kohei;s “PixCell-Deer #24” (2011) (all photos by author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) I always consider ...

Visual art is a subjective experience, but what draws one person into an artwork and turns off another? A new exhibit, "Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience," explores that ...

Aesthetics—When you "feel" it. When you "feel" the power of the art. When it all comes together in perfect harmony—song, performance, message, connection—there is a physical reaction to the art. You ...

The year 2019 was a monumental one for art. While VS Gaitonde’s abstract sold for a whopping Rs 25.24 crore at Saffronart’s auction in March, Bhupen Khakhar’s Two Men in Benares (1982) fetched £2.54 ...