Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors ...

Zoe Pettijohn Schade, “Crowd of Crowds 4” detail (2015), gouache on paper, 10 x 18 inches (courtesy Kai Matsumiya Gallery) One of the more promising avenues that postmodernism explored was to seek out ...

Installation view of With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, June 26–November 28, 2021, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, ...

I've always loved these decorative indentations on book page edges but never knew what they were called. They're gauffered edges - gilt edges decorated by a finisher using heated tools to indent small ...