The History of Art

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits.

No artist cooked up a tastier version of the primal Pop recipe than Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and early ’60s, a time explored in two Museum of Modern Art shows.

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The Rijksmuseum is poised to reopen on April 13, after a lengthy renovation that restored much of its 19th-century grandeur, and paired it with 21st-century lighting and technology.

Last week in Egypt, a group of Russian photographers apparently climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza—hiding from guards for four hours after closing time before beginning the ascent.

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A 2012 work by the British artist Banksy has vanished from a wall in London and turned up at an auction house in Miami.

Should criminals attempt to lift a valuable Chinese artefact from a museum display case, or scrawl over a priceless painting, their photograph now could be with the police and 800 cultural institutions in 20 minutes.

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Needless restitution of antiquities makes ancient art less available for the public.

A Tudor portrait thought to show Henry VIII’s last wife Catherine Parr actually depicts his first, the National Portrait Gallery have said, after experts notice she was wearing the wrong clothes.

The surprising discovery of an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall in the village of Lyminge is offering a new view of the lives of these pagan kings

The work of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer has long puzzled the art world. Some of his pieces just don't quite fit. They're a little off. What gives? Author Benjamin Binstock has an idea, an idea that commentator Alva Noë finds appealing.

The Journal of Roman Archaeology is not exactly beach reading; the annual editions weigh in at around one-thousand pages.

"The dig has been hailed as "the most important excavation ever held" in the capital"

Tucked away and forgotten for years in a museum storage bin, the small oil painting held a great secret and was just biding its time, waiting for someone to notice it. And then one day someone did.

In 1990, men dressed as police officers made off with 13 art pieces valued at up to $500 million. They included two Rembrandt oil paintings. The FBI is asking for help in locating them.

Local archaeologists are working alongside six foreign excavation teams to acquire additional skills and preserve national treasures.

Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone.

#EmojiArtHistory -- where art-smart geeks recreate work by famous artists using emojis on Twitter.

Giant sculpture outside the Orange County Museum of Art is hard to miss.

PARIS — A visitor to the Louvre's newest extension, in northern France, has been detained after scrawling an inscription in marker on the famed canvas of Eugene Delacroix "Liberty Leading the People." The 28-year-old woman was immediately seized by...

B BUCHAREST (AFP).- /B A former Romanian model, charged in connection with the October theft of seven masterpieces from a Dutch museum, admitted he