This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists. This spring ...

“What always fascinates me is the narrative potential of art,” said Emanuela Tarizzo, the new director of London’s prestigious Frieze Masters fair, which brings together art and collectibles from ...

An analysis of the auction market’s resurgent interest in the Old Masters and in young artists reinventing the classics. Sellers of fine artworks by European Old Masters have spent the past several ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

At TEFAF Maastricht, a sense of resumed normalcy was tempered by an awareness that the pandemic has profoundly altered the business of selling centuries-old art. By Scott Reyburn MAASTRICHT, the ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Officials at Dunbar Cave State Park reported that the oldest cave art in the U.S. was “completely submerged,” which “has never happened before.” Boardwalks throughout the ...

Aspen City Council members agreed on Tuesday that they do not want to see the soon-to-be-vacant Aspen Art Museum building handed over to private, commercial, or office space use. They also agreed that ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call. Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan,” 1614, State ...

Pieter Bruegel’s iconic 1565 painting The Harvesters hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The work depicts peasants cutting stalks of wheat nearly as tall as they are. “Nowadays, ...

When Andres Valencia was five years old, his parents, Elsa and Lupe Valencia, knew their son had a special gift. They were right. Just five years later at 10 years old, Valencia has accomplished more ...