An oil painting by 19th-century Cantonese artist Lam Qua shows a woman with a young child seated on her lap. The pair appears healthy at first glance. Fancy blue earrings dangle from the woman’s ears. Red and white flowers adorn her hair.
She gazes down...
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world.
His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired Prum to read aesthetic philosophers to get a better...