This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine.

Midori Karasawa designs rooms with simplicity and natural elements based on timeless principles of Japanese and spare modern aesthetics.

Dee Jai, an artist from Bicol, quietly observed a group of kids deeply engrossed in their artworks, oblivious to the thick ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another. By Scott Reyburn Reporting from ...

Born in the ’80s at the beginning of Seattle’s rock-music renaissance, the grunge aesthetic didn’t truly blossom until the early ’90s. But before it became a full-fledged fashion phenomena ...

The inaugural edition at the restored Grand Palais featured works at price levels never seen before at Paris’s fall art fair. By Scott Reyburn Reporting from Paris Americans flocked to the city ...