By Will Heinrich The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met shows the weight of many minds. By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The artist Barbara ...

Chinese learners achieve remarkable success levels compared to their Western peers. But it’s not simply based on rote ...

I recently had occasion to reflect on the construction of the image and legacy of Confucius while talking with Dr. Agnes Hsu of New York's China Institute, where there is currently a fantastic ...

International officials and scholars from countries such as Japan, Italy and France delivered speeches either in person or through other means, emphasizing the importance of Confucianism in ...

If to live authentically is to live in accordance with what my inner self demands, doing things I don’t like can seem like a ...

From exploring the Batu Caves to admiring the Petronas Twin Towers, these are the top tourist places to visit & things to do ...

If anything, art is... about morals, about our belief in humanity. Without that, there simply is no art. Ai Weiwei The aim of activist artists is to create art that is a form of political or social ...

an often overlooked but visionary figure who jumpstarted the careers of many of modern art's giants Julia Binswanger Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian ...

Graffiti art has its origins in 1970s New York, when young people began to use spray paint and other materials to create images on buildings and on the sides of subway trains. Such graffiti can range ...

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to offer free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any ...