From classic plaid to delicate lace, these timeless motifs are everywhere—and it's no coincidence. As with all art forms, the world of nails offers something for everyone, from the austere to the ...

What do you see when you look at these images? Microscopic cells, cross-sections of bones, blood vessels—these biological structures all spring to mind. All of those guesses would be wrong. At first ...

I made the bold decision to venture into the NY Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter at MoMA PS1. There were throngs of people examining books, chatting about books, buying books, and having ...

For most of the last four decades, Pattern and Decoration art seemed wonderfully outré to many observers, an eccentric violation of the standards and norms of serious painting and sculpture that was ...

It was the late 1960s and early ’70s, a moment in which the art establishment was in a full-on bromance with Minimalism: stacked boxes, chilly neon, hand-drawn grids, not to mention all that trippy ...

Viewed on its own, a work of art will look one way. Viewed in conjunction with other pieces both like and unlike it, that same work might be seen quite differently. This synergistic effect operates at ...

As with all art forms, the world of nails offers something for everyone, from the austere to the eccentric. While many prefer a clean, uniform look (nude manicures have been having a serious moment), ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the senior beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...