The world is in desperate need of sensitive, caring art teachers who are as eager to learn as they are to instruct, and Mónica Palma is a shimmering example of just such a teacher. The Mexican-born, ...

Travel back to 1930s Tokyo, some three decades before Yoko Ono joined New York City’s flourishing downtown art scene and her conceptual artist’s book Grapefruit (1964) emerged as a seminal work of the ...

In private classes, children are taken outside of the school system. Often the child is engaging one-on-one with an art instructor (i.e., a piano teacher, a painting lesson, a dance teacher). However, ...

Installation view, Brian Belott’s Dr. Kid President Jr. at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. (Images courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.) Brian Belott’s work is a lesson in the eccentric and ...

Adults and children view art in completely different ways. Carrying out research at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum in 2017, my colleagues and I found that when adults look at an artwork, they are guided ...

This blog is cross-posted on the Mason Arts Research Center Blog and was co-written with Kaylee Chulla, M.A. student, George Mason University. When thinking about how engaging in the arts may ...