The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

It started simply enough: two people working at a Los Angeles institution wondering how they could save some art from being thrown away. Joan Weinstein, now the Director of the Getty Foundation, ...

Can art and science really be interconnected? Scientists collect data, conduct experiments and make discoveries. Artists tell stories and tap into life's intangible spaces to shed light on the human ...

Meet a few of the featured artists from the Getty’s 2024 Southern California art event PST ART. Weaving together stories of artists featured in the Getty’s 2024-25 Southern California art event ...

Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature. Just as the artist is restricted only by his imagination and his facility with his chisel or brush, the scientist is restricted only by his ...

PST Art, formerly known as Pacific Standard Time, is like the Olympics of art for Southern California. Dozens of institutions come together to celebrate culture in a dizzying series of exhibitions and ...

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American More than a decade ago, the renowned ...