Frances Priest creates ceramic vessels, tiles, and sculptural forms that explore the possibilities of pattern.

Great Art Explained began in May 2020 with the simple premise that great art can be explained clearly and concisely in 15 ...

RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY Premieres Tuesdays, July 8-22, 2025 at 9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the ...

The artwork is being loaned to museums across the country as part of the gallery’s two-year “Across the Nation” initiative ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

An Italian museum has called on patrons to "respect art" after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona ...

As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to France, Scotland to the Greek Isles, we traverse that mystical world of mighty megaliths ...

As Europe passed A.D. 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with colorful altarpieces, lacy stonework, and radiant stained glass. We visit luxurious castles to ...

Museums & Institutions French Museums Plan Ticket Price Hike for Non-European Visitors International visitors will have to pay $35 if they want to see Mona Lisa up close.

Sixty-five thousand years is a time longer than human comprehension, so far beyond our understanding it is abstracted to “forever”. Aboriginal people have been on this continent for at least that long ...