Not many exhibitions manage to feel both expansive and deeply personal — “Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection” does just that.

As it tends to do, inspiration came to Cierra Lynn Taylor in the form of a whim. She had already turned furniture, clothes and bathroom stalls into canvases when she decided to sweep a paintbrush ...

In the middle of nowhere, deep in central Tanzania, archaeologists have come across something that’s raising a lot of eyebrows — a set of ancient rock paintings that show three strange, human-like ...

Did they find her using a Magda-fying glass? Researchers have claimed that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene may have been hiding in plain sight in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece for nearly ...

I wonder if the accompanying people were interred at the same time or at their natural point of death. Also, I interpreted "upside down" skeleton to mean the skeleton was in a prone position while the ...

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Born in a mountain village in Switzerland northeast of Milan, Italy, and a few miles north of the Italian border, Giacometti was the first son of the important late 19th- and early 20th-century ...

A 10-year-old girl has won an award for her painting inspired by the work of artist LS Lowry. Sophia was selected from hundreds of primary school-aged children as the winner of the 2025 Copley Prize, ...

Very few masterpieces are as anarchic, in both composition and atmosphere, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance.” The 1566 painting, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows Flemish ...