Arts

New research finds particularly positive results when parents and kids work on a creative project together.

A new study finds that incorporating music and drawing during lessons can help kids retain what they've learned.

New research presents the best evidence yet that taking arts classes benefits kids academically.

This season, works by women composers are being featured more frequently by many American orchestras. Mozart and Schubert, meet Mazzolli and Shaw.

New National Endowment for the Arts research finds arts attendance is rising, but remains below 2002 levels.

New research suggests they have more mature ideas about how real-world relationships work.

Performing can be a way of letting go of one's sense of self.

Analyzing the persistent pressure on black audiences to root for products that aren't always very good.

New research finds large benefits from a Head Start program that emphasizes the arts.

British researchers find a strong link between cultural engagement and participating in activities that benefit the community.

Their use of language reveals the different ways painters, sculptors, and architects conceptualize space.

New research finds the eyes of children and adults are drawn to very different things.

New research finds mindless drawing produces psychological benefits.

He has recently been compared to both Julius Caesar and King Lear.

Another study concludes that women and people of color are disadvantaged in the art marketplace.

Trump's budget proposal would come at a cost to his core voter contingent.

Will dire circumstances prevent art that fuels a resistance from catching on, or will artists simply be further galvanized to create?

New research finds audiences cannot reliably distinguish between the sound of new instruments and old masters.

New research from England finds the wealthy are more likely to attend arts events, but less likely to spend their spare time painting, singing, or dancing.

Two members of a prominent medical school faculty make the case for incorporating arts-related training into the curriculum.

A National Endowment for the Arts report finds people who decline to attend arts events cite some unexpected reasons for staying home.

Production of cultural goods and services took a huge hit with the recession, and has been slow to rebound.

While it's not perfectly tangible, the financial value of a degree in the humanities certainly exists.

New research finds 1994 legislation that included the arts as a core subject in American schools made a difference in many places.