The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1964.89 // Public Domain Jean-Gabriel du Theil was a French politician who served Louis XV of France as his secretary for foreign affairs.

But passersby began confusing the artwork for a dead body in the river. As a result, people have branded the statue offensive, 'tone deaf' and 'downright disturbing' - and they want it gone.

Cressida Campbell is a renowned Australian artist, celebrated for her unique style of art that incorporates both watercolor and woodblock techniques. She was born in Sydney in 1960 and grew up in the ...

Artificial intelligence has helped researchers to uncover hundreds of ancient land artworks in Peru. The mysterious pre-Hispanic figures, known as geoglyphs, are motifs etched into the ground via ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Hans Haacke is an influential German-born American Conceptual artist whose work critiques social and political systems, especially those found in the art world. Working across painting, installation, ...

Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia Binswanger An exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens explores how Western intellectuals viewed the ...

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Artist Emma Majury demonstrates some basic artistic techniques in the realms of drawing, painting, photography, printing, collage, and sculpture. A series of short films for primary schools ...

Today, Islamic art is still being carved into the landscape of AlUla. In 2022, Desert X AlUla brought together acclaimed international artists to create monumental works amid the red sandstone ...

The Welsh Government will hand out grants to build “anti-racist” public artworks in order to set the “right historic narrative”. Labour has committed to making Wales “anti-racist by 2030 ...

A Dutch museum had to pick artwork out of the bin after a member of staff thought that the display, which consisted of two empty beer cans, was leftover rubbish. All The Good Times We Spent ...