Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...
The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.
Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...
During an auction on the evening of March 7 at Government House, historian Mitch Kent held up a plastic-sheathed copy of an ...
Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...
New director Zoë Ryan hopes to inspire dialogue and create unexpected experiences at the expanded Hammer museum ...
A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a densely packed set of prints sitting in the foyer of the local high school, ...
In the 16th century, one could receive an invitation to a fête via lithograph or linen-paper letter, folded and sealed in wax, stamped with an ornate insignia. But in 2009, when siblings Alexa and ...
In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict ...
A 16th-century Italian painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found. It is now at the center of a custody battle ...
In the late 1970s, nationalist vigilantes tried to destroy Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Today the painting itself is safe — but ...
The exhibition was launched in 2022 in Liverpool, England, and has since visited Scotland and New Zealand. The San Diego ...