PARIS — Felice Varini’s environmental paintings can only be experienced in architectural space. A geometric abstract painter, his site-specific works are in the vein of Daniel Buren and Niele Toroni’s ...

Angela Bulloch, an original member of the Young British Artists (YBA), is currently challenging spatial perceptions at her latest exhibition at Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber. In her show, titled ...

The insights provided by neurobiologist Dale Purves and his colleagues over the last few years about why the brain doesn’t see the world according to the measurements provided by rulers, protractors ...

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PERHAPS it is difficult to demonstrate primary constancy scaling independently of the distortion illusions, but its effects are not limited to plane figures. For example, the apparent size of the Moon ...

Even when we consciously know two lines are the same length, why can't we help seeing them as different? ILLUSIONS ARE ANOMALIES that can reveal clues about the mysterious workings of the brain to ...

Optical illusions play tricks on your brain and can make you see things that aren't really there, from static images swirling around the page to images that stay with you even after you look away.

FOR more than a century the various optico -geometric illusions have presented a challenge and been a source of controversy. Physiologists, philosophers and psychologists have produced a wide range of ...

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...