Like a treasure hunter with an oddity from some distant land, Adrie Kennis squints curiously at his model of an ancient woman ...

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Picasso was particularly inspired by various prehistoric elements, as the 2023 exhibition No Past in Art: How Prehistory Inspired Picasso’s Work at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris showed. Gauguin, ...

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 ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

The first era of Technological Reproducibility can be traced to evidence of the protagonism of women in rock art and ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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 ...

Paul Merson fought the good fight but recently became the fourth contestant eliminated from the current series of Strictly ...