Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

Sotheby’s is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring.

Or artworks created to express emotions or abstract ideas? Some experts viewed ... survival tools, not works of art. The problem is, many of the figurines discovered so far—predators such ...