Yet, as his eyes faltered, so too did his art. Developing after the turn of the 19th Century, as his cataracts took hold, so did Monet’s inability to see and gain impressions of the world.

In the eyes resides man’s first sense, and it is fallible. Preying and playing on the fallibility in vision is the new movement of “optical art” that has sprung up across the Western world.

For example, the "Eye of Horus" belongs to Horus, the sky god, often depicted as a falcon. It's a falcon's eye. Fast-forward to the founding of the United States, and it ended up on the back end ...

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Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes.” Posthumous portraits are among the toughest commissions artists get. Today they work from photographs of the subject ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

The Fitchburg Art Museum, on Elm Street, features the vibrantly colored, richly layered, monumental portraits of Bob Dilworth in “When I Remembered Home,” on view through Jan. 12.

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The eye dimming and closing, combined with the head movements, make it look almost alive. This isn’t [jerome]’s first Stargate-Horus-Helmet rodeo. He made an Arduino-powered one back in 2011.

Conventional wisdom says art should be hung at eye level. But it’s important to remember that “eye level” means different ...

IN ‘The Third Eye of Indian Art: Aesthetics as Vedanta’, Harsha V Dehejia takes the reader through a journey of opening the trichakshu, or the third eye, to appreciate art.

Hugh Grant turns his natural charm into a weapon in “Heretic,” a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a ...