We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

Though many ancient civilizations revered the nude form, the rise of the Catholic Church in the 15th century—and its correlation of sex as sin—changed everything.

Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a savvy French curator who had been working for the resistance Sonja Anderson This brief ...

Smashing guitars on stage became one of rock’s most rebellious acts. This video explores how legends like Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain turned guitar destruction into an art form. From ...

We look at the history of blue in art and how Prussian blue was invented. When the colour blue was more expensive than gold While some of the blue dyes were made from plants, including indigo in India ...

The neighborhood has a jarringly different history for me from the one the New Museum of Contemporary Art chronicles in its new show “East Village USA.” I haven’t seen it yet (it opens ...

And while I'm pretty sure the entertainment industry's reluctance to adapt to new technology has hurt them, the artists themselves have amazing new opportunities to create really incredible art in ...

Today, concrete is finding more inventive uses including residential construction and works of art. Some homes in hurricane-ravaged Florida are being replaced by concrete dwellings because of ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

These original practices of using drink or drugs to inspire art are still in use around the world today. The muses may hold a pen in one hand and a smoke, or steaming mug, in the other – herbal ...

State-of-the-art fabrication process uses 193 nm ultraviolet argon fluoride laser for photolithography. To create a feature size that is an order of magnitude smaller than the wavelength of light used ...