Carolyn Anderson

Detail from John Singer Sargent "The Daughters of Edward Boit" Note the variety of edge information, especially on a horizont...

In 1954 ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed that herring gull chicks instinctively pecked at red spots on their parents’ bills to beg for food...

Modern technology has confirmed an unpopular truth that has been overlooked or ignored by art history for centuries. The figures of gods a...

I have persistently written about the limitations of vision and how language can affect our perceptions. In “Why naming the ‘thing’ can b...

A while back I posted an article titled “ Do facts matter or is truth just another possibility? ”. I wrote about our outdated, misleading ...

Nikolai Timkov "A Bright Day" 1963 Next winter, if you are fortunate enough to enjoy a bright, sunlit, snow-covered landsc...

“When the great English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds explained to his students in the Royal Academy that blue should not be put into the fo...

I’ve been painting birds off and on for many years. It’s an intermittent pursuit, and I’ve been met with resistance from galleries at times...

Stripes and zebras Stripes can mess with your brain. A recent study from research in the Netherlands and the U.S. suggests that “looking ...