A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This discovery challenges the belief that the origins of art lie in the West ...

The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

Focusing on an area where a large lake was once situated during the Pleistocene, they found a wealth of material from the Paleolithic, from hand axes over a million years old to Levallois ...

The three Graces, or Charities, are found throughout centuries of art history. They are easily identifiable as they are almost always depicted together. Most often, they are shown as three beautiful, ...

The Thomas Walther Collection—341 photographs by 148 artists—represents the innovative vision of the 1920s and ’30s, a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based ...