A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state. The late 4th millennium BC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no surprise that the art deco movement was born around the conclusion of World War I. It was a symbol of hope, a new ...

Since the 1980s, the MTA has installed hundreds of site-specific works of art throughout the subway system. These pieces of art have been designed by world-famous artists in order to create a ...

Fossilised footprints, and more rarely, hand prints, can be found around the world; left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of geological preservation. In new research ...

EACH generation has to cultivate anew an appreciation of the great works of the past. It is not enough that the masters of art and of life were crowned in their time ; it is not enough that they won ...

Ask three historians to define "Art Deco," and you'll likely get three varying answers. That's because Art Deco is many different things to many different people, and its evolution is as unique as its ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...

Art is meeting science all around us. Every month brings word of some new exhibition, competition, collaboration or example of art and science interacting. These can range from the modest – such as ...

There are moments when works of art serve a higher purpose than mere entertainment—they serve as a space where the collective public can grapple with issues of meaning, purpose, suffering and ...