The Heart of Zen, which is on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, presents, for the first time in the United States, two of the most important paintings in Asian art.
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Archaeologists have discovered a funerary stone that could completely change how we understand gender roles in ancient Iberian society.
Here are 10 must-see artworks by Native American artists at the Seattle Art Museum.
One of Napoleon Bonaparte's black bicorne hats sold at an auction in Fontainebleau, France for €1.9 million ($2.1 million), and is among just 20 others that are said to exist.
Italian painter Marco Almaviva began his career in the late 1950s in Milan while in close contact with the artists working in the Spatialism movement, and aimed to bring art and science together to create 'new ideas of art.'
The following failed restoration jobs range from humorous to disgraceful. Some were so easy to fix, it’s like they never happened. Others have left masterpieces so irrevocably damaged that huge fines had to be issued. The rest seem to fall into a gray area, with members of the general public and professional communities still debating whether or not these so-called failures carry much weight in the grand scheme.
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has made the recovery of the San Jose, a shipwreck from 1708 laden with billions of dollars worth of treasure, a priority for his administration.
The entire selection committee of the prestigious exhibition, documenta, which happens every five years, has resigned over disputes related to the Israel-Hamas conflict putting the 2027 edition of the show in jeopardy.
This story particularly focuses on prehistoric sculptures from across the globe—which are often rather small and tend to depict humans, animals, or some combination of the two. The earliest sculptures we currently know of date back to around 30,000 B.C.
Tracey Emin Makes History as the First Woman Artist Appointed a Trustee of the British Museum
