Classical art may have been created to capture beauty, history, and the human condition—but who says it can’t also deliv ...

Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did Beksiński simply succeed at capturing the unsettling underside of human consciousness? During his ...

The new research has pinpointed when some of the first European art that we know of was created. According to the scientists, the earliest cave paintings ... early groups of human ancestors ...

The painting of a wild pig and three human-like figures is at least 51,200 years old, more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern ...

Back in 1838, Louis Daguerre captured the first photo of a human being with ... exclusionary practices in the art world, such as Shigeko Kubota’s “Vagina Painting” (1965), which James ...