Kinetic and Op art pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez has died in Paris at the age of 95. One of Latin America’s best-known artists of the second half of the 20th century, Cruz-Diez worked with bright layers of ...

Eye-popping, vertigo-inducing paintings, plug-in artworks with moving parts—these were all the rage back in the 1960s. At that time, illusionistic abstract works appeared on the walls of major museums ...

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather they are the products of artists who have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions ...