Square steel bars give way to knotted branches in Alicja Kwade’s monumental meditation on time at Pace Gallery.

The collapse of American global power was more pointedly represented by Dahn Vo’s In God We Trust: the American flag, with ...

The coastline paradox presents a fascinating challenge to our understanding of geography. It reveals a striking truth: there is no consistent way to measure the length of a country's coastline. The ...

Fractal patterns in art and nature are both functional and aesthetically pleasing, according to the study published in PNAS Nexus. This summary was AI-generated and reviewed by CNN editors.

Fractal patterns in art and nature are both functional and aesthetically pleasing, according to the study published in PNAS Nexus. This summary was AI-generated and reviewed by CNN editors.

In real trees in nature, that number is usually somewhere between 1.5 and 3, depending on the tree. But in art, it’s all up to the artist and how they depicted their trees. Play Puzzles & Games ...

Fractals are infinitely complex patterns with never-ending detail as you zoom in. They can be created by repeating a simple process at finer and finer scales in an ongoing feedback loop. Fractals play ...

New research has revealed a quantity related to the complexity and proportions of a tree's branches that artists have preserved and played with to affect if and how viewers perceive a tree.