There is a fine art to capturing the beauty around us, and Luke Downs, who describes his work as abstract realist, has it ...

While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the ...

Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene is the first collection of nonfiction published by Guy ...

State of the Birds Report highlights the urgent need for conservation as North American bird populations continue to fall.

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Aboriginal artists from Australia's Tiwi Islands, whose works will show at Hong Kong's Art Basel, offer a window into their ...

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Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin ...