The arts and humanities increase our healthspan: a new study shows their value: A new study from University College London found that regular arts and cultural engagement—including visiting galleries, attending concerts, singing and dancing—slows biological aging at the same rate as physical exercise. People who engaged most frequently and across the widest variety of activities [...]
A new exhibit transforms an archive of natural science writing into dynamic visual images.
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.
Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]
How hyperspectral cameras allow new secrets in old paintings to surface.
Science broadens our understanding of global influences in the late Renaissance.
Finding flatbread in the buried city.
Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus in its digital dimensions.
Cézanne's work vibrates with insights from philosophy and neurology.
