Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls, or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...

In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

The arthropod Arthropleura is the largest known arthropod ever to inhabit the Earth. The giant arthropod ‘Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of ...

The pioneering Canadian cave diver has dived to depths as great as 140 metres in Bermuda. And in 2001, she became the first person to explore caves inside an iceberg in Antarctica. "They're ...

Two "rare" paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m. A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie's auction house and sold ...

yes, he’s just three years old. In April, Laurent had work displayed at ART MUC, Munich’s largest art fair. A gallery in New York is apparently in talks with the toddler. He sells his work ...

Now, an exhibition in France is spotlighting paintings from this lesser-known chapter of Pollock’s artistic development—and works by artists who inspired him, such as Pablo Picasso.

The artist also works with choreographers, dancers, and amateur performers to produce lavish community celebrations in untraditional venues for art. Dazzling in their movement, Cave’s sculptures are ...

One could argue that every great painting produces two works of art: the canvas and the surface where the pigments are mixed. The Artist’s Palette, forthcoming from Princeton University Press on ...

Scientists in France solved the evolutionary mystery of this prehistoric monster, which resembles both the centipedes and millipedes of today Olatunji Osho-Williams Staff Contributor A 2007 ...