In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...

When Georgia B. Smith recently walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 24, she felt nervous. The 34-year-old wasn’t there to admire 18th-century paintings alongside New York City’s summer ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

To commemorate his 50th anniversary in the Rolling Stones, Ron Wood painted new portraits of the band he's dubbed the 'Paint it Black' series.

Seven artists who are expanding the possibilities of one of the most traditional forms of art-making—and reshaping the way we see it. A few years ago, during a moment of extraordinary political ...

For 15 years, Houston artist Daniel Anguilu has worked to show how his Harrisburg Arts Museum — a local graffiti mecca that showcases local and international art — is an institution in the East End.

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m, making it the most expensive work by a female artist to sell at auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed, ...

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most expensive female artist at auction, after her El sueno (la cama) painting sold for $US56 million. The painting breaks ...

What makes art art? Is it the method or the creator? Does it need a color palette and oil paints, or a canvas laid flat on the floor and paint splattered across it? Does it require a critically ...

A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...