The expansive new exhibition Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists fills the entire space of London’s Freud Museum. It ...

The heyday of spiritualism overlapped and intersected with the golden age of stage magic, and a new exhibit at the Peabody ...

Maurizio D’Andrea, an international painter, is a master of the symbolic representation of the unconscious—a dark, complex ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their ... that anyone can walk in for a moment of rest and leave with a brain buzzing or a soul stirred. For our annual Museums Issue, The Washington ...

As nearly every Beyoncé song proves, great singular art can emerge from many ... It may seem like a punctuation affectation, but the brain-tickling mystery “The Event!” ...

Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction. Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be ...

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. By Giles Harvey Read by Ralph Lister Produced by Jack D’Isidoro and Aaron ...

“It took an eternity until mathematicians finally invented zero as a number.” Perhaps that’s no surprise given that the concept can be difficult for the brain to grasp. It takes children longer to ...

Hold the morning coffee and meditation: for about 75 days over the span of a year, neuroscientist Carina Heller’s morning ritual included climbing into her university’s brain scanner at 7:30 a ...

According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action ...