Discoveries in the archaeological record have sparked debate about how we should define art. Some researchers argue that art ...

He began participating in international art shows in the 1980s, starting with the 1982 10th Biennale of Graphic Design at the Moravian ... For me, it’s an allegory for the cycle of life itself ...

Washington, D.C. is an ideal city for a weekend getaway—each block is dense with history, art, and culture ... Upstairs, the Rooftop Floor was recently transformed by Irish design team Clodagh to ...

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

As one of the songs on the film asks, how can we make a “life worth living”? Some viewers have compared the film to Plato’s Cave. The allegory is described in The Republic, the ancient Greek ...

This isn’t the sort of book you fit neatly into your collection; it’s the sort of book you build a collection around ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

The Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt features 25 bold projects that ask how we build, remember, and redefine ...

“You couldn’t get more female than this,” says Nicholas Conard, the Ohio-born archaeologist whose University of Tübingen team found the sculpture at the bottom of a vaulted cave in ...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution. By Zachary Small and ...