Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up your spine. This is the phenomena that is called ...

This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine. Often, it ...

This Art History Research and Drawing stream is designed for artists and students who want inspiration with real skills. We ...

If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself. Humans are consuming roughly a million plastic bottles every single minute, and an ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

Resurrection Chapel, 1925, Sigurd Lewerentz, architect, Stockholm, Sweden. Dismissed or Validated as “Classical” – but what of its fully stark mass. Image ...

Aesthetics are about experiencing things as beautiful. Aesthetic experiences include artworks, but also the experience of a breathtaking landscape, the autumn leaves in the park, listening to your ...