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And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called "cartophilately."
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Million Stories
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
Is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.
The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
The Mayan calendar is revered for its impeccable accuracy. Now, a recent excavation in Guatemala reveals how the system developed over time.
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.