JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — Circles and squares. Rectangles and angles. Cones and cylinders and trapezoids. A science museum is using art and tradition to teach math to poor children in some of South ...

Over decades as a professional artist, Robert Kercher never realized he was using principles of mathematics to create paintings of wildlife and nature. Then Kercher was commissioned by the National ...

When your project for the day is painting a room, you probably don’t reach for a calculator. And if any math does come up, it’s likely the stuff you’ve known since grade school: Estimate the area of ...

*** For the adventurous soul who wants to explore not the math of art, but the art of mathematics, I suggest a reading of “A Mathematician’s Apology,” a heartfelt treatise from early 20th-century ...

It’s inarguable that Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night” ranks among the top 5 most celebrated paintings in history, alongside Edward Munch’s “The Scream,” “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” (both ...

Registration is open for Kids' College, a summer enrichment day camp offering a variety of classes of every interest to children and teens, ages 6 to 15. The program runs weekly Monday through ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...