These pioneering artists have sustained a legacy of radical, often political art, over the course of decades. That their work ...

Christina Kastell, a curator at the Putnam Museum, places a bust of what a female mummy might have looked like in the new Egyptian exhibit opening today. To the left is a more current version of ...

Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and ...