American-born Abstract Expressionist Amaranth Ehrenhalt’s painting, “Jump In and Move Around” is a cacophony of bright colors ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction.

Abstract: Examples are useful for inspiring ideas and facilitating implementation in visualization design. However, there is little understanding of how visualization designers use examples, and how ...

In software engineering as in all technical work, we find ourselves writing definitions of the concepts we need to work on. Often, such definitions leave much to be desired. In two earlier BLOG@CACM ...

Background: Observational studies that examine the comparative effectiveness of healthcare services often face challenges in controlling for confounding by indication. This study examines whether ...

The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...

An abstract sentence is a sentence that expresses an idea, concept, or quality rather than something you can see, touch, or measure directly. It deals with things like emotions, values, theories, or ...

A modern Red Riding Hood on her way to Grandma’s house can meander through the woods, or drive down the interstate, or even climb a mountain to come around the back way. All those routes will get her ...

Artists have explored tree-like images in art for centuries. Many people see these scenes and instantly recognize them as trees, even when the art is strangely stylized or lacks detail. A new study ...