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 ...

In a recently published study on the effects of visual art on emotions, interest and social media engagement, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Life Science Communications ...

The Mauritshuis has teamed up with Dutch researchers to probe just what happens in our brains when we view art in person, compared to seeing a reproduction. It’s the museum’s first research into ...