Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them.

What was once a shining symbol of liberty now carries the sorrow of lost meaning,” the artist wrote in a July 4 post on ...

Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...

The painting, though scandalous (William Hazlitt called it “a nightmare on the breast of British art”), quickly became ...

In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...