Art History
Climate Activists Hammer at Glass Protecting Velázquez's 'Rokeby Venus'
Organized by Just Stop Oil, the incident was just the latest of many protests targeting famous artworks
Andy Warhol Museum Announces $45 Million Expansion
The new building will feature a performance venue inspired by "A Bird," a watercolor by the famed Pop artist
Hidden Demon Revealed in the Shadows of a Joshua Reynolds Painting
Conservators have restored the malignant spirit, which generated controversy among 18th-century audiences
Did Michelangelo Sketch These Drawings in a Secret Room Below a Florence Chapel?
For the first time, visitors will get to see the intricate sketches that some scholars attribute to the artist
Mysterious Stone in 15th-Century Painting Could Be a Prehistoric Tool
Jean Fouquet's "Melun Diptych" is likely the earliest artistic representation of an Acheulean hand ax
Painting Stolen by American Soldier During World War II Returned to Germany
FBI agents and art recovery lawyers helped retrieve the piece by Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer
Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment
The works of the recently knighted filmmaker address contemporary issues in two different Smithsonian museums
Rodin Sculpture Has Been Missing From Scottish Museum Collection for Nearly 75 Years
The piece is a plaster version of one of the figures from the French sculptor's "Les Bourgeois de Calais"
Mysterious Man Returns Six Stolen Paintings to Art Detective's Doorstep
The puzzling incident comes just weeks after an anonymous tipster delivered a stolen van Gogh to Arthur Brand's flat in Amsterdam
These Portraits Made a Bold Statement in 19th-Century America
A new exhibition exploring artistic representation of Black subjects includes a work that subverted cultural expectations
Vibrant Paint Once Decorated the 2,500-Year-Old Parthenon Marbles
New research has revealed that ancient artists used color to create highly detailed designs
A Painting Originally Valued at $15,000 Turned Out to Be a Rembrandt. Now, It Could Sell for Millions
The hand behind the brush can make or break a painting's worth—especially when that hand belongs to a legendary Dutch master
This New Hand-Painted Video Game Takes Place Inside Claude Monet's Eyeball
Australian designer and developer Pat Naoum spent seven years creating "The Master's Pupil"
Pokémon Takes Over the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
The franchise and the 19th-century Dutch master both took inspiration from Japanese art
Bob Ross' Very First On-Air Painting Is for Sale
Priced at nearly $10 million, "A Walk in the Woods" was the subject of the artist's 1983 television premiere
Manet's 'Olympia' Comes to America for the Very First Time
The painting scandalized 19th-century viewers and heralded the dawn of modern art
Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave
Many of the works, estimated to be at least 24,000 years old, employ a rare clay painting technique
Stolen van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Returned in an Ikea Bag
Arthur Brand, the "Indiana Jones of the art world," negotiated the recovery of an 1884 canvas taken from a Dutch museum in March 2020
Museum Drops Ban on Photographing Picasso's 'Guernica'
After enforcing the rule for three decades, officials say that lifting it will prevent overcrowding and attract younger audiences
Tomislav Gotovac Loves Zagreb
As one of the city’s most significant late 20th century artists, Gotovac’s work continues to celebrate the surreal
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