Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no surprise that the art deco movement was born around the conclusion of World War I. It was a symbol of hope, a new ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state. The late 4th millennium BC ...

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EACH generation has to cultivate anew an appreciation of the great works of the past. It is not enough that the masters of art and of life were crowned in their time ; it is not enough that they won ...

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Ask three historians to define "Art Deco," and you'll likely get three varying answers. That's because Art Deco is many different things to many different people, and its evolution is as unique as its ...

Picasso was a misogynist, Caravaggio a murderer, Bach an antisemite, Ezra Pound a fascist. Michael Jackson had his own issues. The list of terrible people making beautiful art is disturbingly long.

It was 2020. The world was on lockdown, crying out for some good news. And of all the unlikely things, a public artwork was able to oblige. “It’s so simple but it’s so meaningful in what it’s asking,” ...

Fossilised footprints, and more rarely, hand prints, can be found around the world; left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of geological preservation. In new research ...