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

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 ...

A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp. By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg A ...

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

Indeed, NOUN is so reminiscent of the Plato Allegory of the Cave — an allegory of a mind shackled to pit-dark ignorance at the bottom of a cave. Then, came the first thrust of knowledge ...

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 ...

The work of Sharmistha Ray and Dannielle Tegeder, of Hilma's Ghost, "Abstract Futures" is a vibrant, three-part portal to ...