From these earliest drawings, another masterful artist, Michelangelo infused his drawings with light by using an actual handheld lamp to change the appearance of the light surrounding his famous ...

When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was ...

The students in my first-year seminar—“How to Think Like a Psychologist”—have submitted seven “Proof-of-Thinking” (POT) papers so far this semester. And we’ve all been struggling—in really good ways.

The term mezzotint comes from Italian and literally means “half-tone.” It is the name of a printmaking technique that uses tones rather than lines to depict forms and define spaces. The mezzotint ...

The students in my first-year seminar—“How to Think Like a Psychologist”—have submitted seven “Proof-of-Thinking” (POT) papers so far this semester. And we’ve all been struggling—in really good ways.