Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, 19 × 508 7/8 inches (collection of the Tianjin Museum) A rare exhibition of Chinese painting in Manhattan is drawing acclaim ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Across the fairs at Miami Art Week is an abundance of works featuring flowers: big, small, in color, and greyscale. It seemed that every other booth across Basel, NADA, and Untitled Art Fair had a ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

In the artist’s New York gallery debut at Chart, her carnivorous plants upend the agendas of their 19th-century inspirations. Kate Bickmore, Hypnotic Transference of Luminous Life (2024). Courtesy the ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed. Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early 1600s ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. The Dutch artist Margareta Haverman painted “A Vase of Flowers” over 300 ...

The participants at last weekend’s flower pressing workshop at Longue Vue House and Gardens probably didn’t know they were employing a Japanese art form that dates to the 1600s. Oshibana, practiced — ...