When you think of old paintings, your mind may wander to an image with a somber, stiff tone. It’s likely because most of the ...

This 3.5-hour walk through the Italian hotspot is a feast for all senses.

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

After one of her most controversial fashion choices at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on 1, 2026, Chappell Roan set the ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...

It's finally getting the spotlight it deserves.

In her second solo exhibition with Pilar Corrias, artist Georg Wilson mines histories of poisonous plants and their medicinal ...

Portugal is perfect for unhurried trips—choose one base and let the Atlantic set the pace. From Cascais and surfy Ericeira to Nazaré views, Aveiro canals, Porto’s riverfront, Algarve favorites like ...

Among the Mogao Caves' nearly 500 chambers and temples, a space known as Cave 17 revealed thousands of extraordinary objects.

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, "Shadow Visionaries," shows the darkness spawned by Paris’s bright lights in the 19th century.

Over centuries, artists and censors have employed the humble fig leaf to cover the penis – including on Michelangelo’s ...