A botanical artist completes nearly 500 watercolour paintings to meticulously record the flora of a fragile bioregion in Queensland.

Queen of Double Eyes, that’s how Toronto-based artist Alex Garant introduces herself when she stands next to her mind-bending double vision oil paintings.

Artist Emma Lindström imagines paintings to represent complexité of emotions and feelings in a pictorial way. As it, her artworks have dark and bright contrasts. Through her paintings she offers an colorful way to depict the feelings of your society.

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities, including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition, which lead to improved academic performance. Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, the research is the first large-scale, longitudinal study to be adapted into the regular school curriculum. Visual arts lessons were also found to significantly improve children's visual and spatial memory.

Italian police have found two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002 hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime syndicate’s Naples-area stronghold, investigators said Friday. The paintings, discovered without their frames, are in “relatively good condition,” the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement on its website. It said the two paintings are the 1882 work “Seascape at Scheveningen” and a later work, “Congregation leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen.” The earlier painting contains grains of sand that were stirred up from the beach as Van Gogh worked.