There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a well-preserved house in ancient Pompeii, featuring frescoes depicting scenes from Greek and ...

Amid the chaos of the 2024 presidential election, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents“Power of the People: Art and ...

The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other ...

Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

Despite its far-flung location and years of burial, the statue is remarkably well-preserved, save for the broken-off right ...

From the heart of Mesopotamia to the heights of the Roman Empire, ancient civilizations have left an indelible mark on the ...

The exhibition is organised into three chapters, over three rooms: the promise, the practice and the preservation of democracy. The first looks at the way societies have idealised democracy, ...

The school district is using its art program to remind students that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Students at both schools are being tasked with designing a life-sized statue using ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

From Venus to Yahweh to Ganesha, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston surveys depictions of divinity through the ages.