Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.
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More recent cave painting discoveries, like a 2014 revelation of cave art in Indonesia, believed to be at least 36,000 years old, have altered our understanding of early humans altogether.
More major changes are being made by the Trump administration in an effort to reduce the federal bureaucracy.
Surrealism was one of many art styles that emerged after World War I as artists, alongside the rest of the world, struggled to digest an unprecedented degree of violence and loss.
A trove of ancient gold jewelry was unearthed in an excavation by the Egyptian-French Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples working alongside the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
When you ask people to name their favorite artist, the same names always seem to come up. In this roundup, we shine the spotlight back on our favorite lesser-known female artists. Perhaps after reading our roundup, you will walk away with a new favorite artist!
On a visit to a museum, one usually hones in on the quest to take in as much art as possible. As one walks between galleries, absorbing centuries of art, an expected but often overlooked constant emerges—the picture frame.
There is no doubt that the golden ratio runs rampant through the art of the sixteenth century and on. The most evident manifestation of the ratio lies in the composition of paintings and cutting of canvases
Over the past few weeks, mass layoffs have plagued the country across various sectors— from the National Park Services to acclaimed museums.
Around 1908, Vanessa Bell began a painting that she would call Poppies and Poison. In it, she limns a tabletop in cool-toned whites, set against a striped, cream-colored wall. A small green vial sits beside a pharmacist’s jar and a bowl. In the foreground, three poppies—two white, one red—reach across the canvas. They are carefully placed; their crooked stems have been pulled straight, as parallel as possible.
