Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

"Group of Trees," by Asher Durand via Oregon State University, ca. 1856. A new study from OSU shows that landscape paintings like Durand's could be used to aid historical forest research. When you ...

New research is shaking up our image of art-making in Paleolithic times, arguing that children or even toddlers may have been behind some of world’s earliest known art. The findings suggest that ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Smoggy air during the Industrial Revolution may have contributed to the creation of impressionism, inspiring painters such as J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet to develop new painting ...

Want to raise kind, generous kids? Take them to the art museum! The feeling of awe inspired by great art, it turns out, can be a humbling experience that encourages kids to help others, rather than ...