Welcome to the Faculty of Arts, a dynamic community of students, faculty and staff working in and across the humanities, social sciences, and fine, performing and media arts. Through our diverse range ...

Simply looking at nature can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical ...

Simply looking at nature — or even just digital pictures of it — can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned ...

A study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts suggests that content warnings on visual art can lower viewers’ aesthetic appreciation while increasing negative emotional ...

Ever notice how some dogs resemble their owners? Science explains why we pick pets that mirror our looks and personalities.

Group arts interventions, such as painting, dance, or music, significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in older adults, offering a powerful alternative to traditional treatments. The ...

That’s a shame. It’s something we should all try to change, writes Art Markman, a professor of psychology and a cognitive scientist at the University of Texas. In a post at Psychology Today ...

Now, a little over four years after first publicly posting her portraits on social media, Mckinney has become one of the art world’s buzziest ... Mckinney Photoshops images of women and ...

That’s very much like metaphor, and that’s very much, to me, like art. I really think art’s about representation. And I don’t believe in nonobjective art; I don’t think there’s such a thing. That’s ...

A critic and curator, Kelley writes for art and music journals and has organized numerous exhibitions incorporating his own work, work by fellow artists, and non-art objects that exemplify aspects of ...

As a kid of the 1970s, I was fascinated by a short-lived art movement known as photorealism ... Sauter Morera’s AI images do not; that’s their entire point. (He says he opted for AI in ...