The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo is renowned for his innovative approach to the shaping of Black figuration, capturing the expression, style and character ...

Discover incredible art, history and culture all without spending a dime at these excellent free museums across the country.

Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.

Fresco painting has a long and rich history in Africa, stretching back to ancient Egypt around 2000 BCE. These weren't just ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

While scientists have long puzzled over fossils, the discovery of this cave painting might forever change the perception of paleontology as a field.

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

and a painting by the late Alexander “Skunder” Boghossian, who lived in D.C. for many years and taught art at Howard University. “Senait & Nahom,” which emerged out of Makonnen’s fellowships at the ...

Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), National Art Gallery, Islamabad, hosted a successful calligraphy workshop led by the renowned Pakistani calligrapher Azeem Iqbal. The workshop ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

credit: flickr / dullhunk CC B Y 2.0 A man named Francois Auroux saved a painting by renowned Greek artist Alekos Fassianos from the devastating wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles, touching the ...