For 36 years, Sonja Frisell’s mounting of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, with its monumental Pharaonic sets by Gianni ...

A current exhibition at the MET reveals a humanity that will shift people's perception of religious art — and with it their ...

Europe is a place for art lovers. Whether you are drawn toward modern and contemporary art or prefer classical styles mo ...

In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece of engraved jewelry, archaeologists discovered a trove of Carolingian coins, medieval pottery and more ...

Lorna Simpson encountered this book several years ago and has since remained curious about the stuff-of-legends yet ...

Why a mustache? 'Nosferatu' director Robert Eggers and prosthetic makeup designer David White on their update of Max ...

An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring an ear may seem strange to some, but it was made with the hopes that someone ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

A lot of how we experience art comes down to reading between the lines. But is it okay to just bring your own meaning to the ...

"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly ...

Beyond flint-knapping and tossing spears with atlatls, Kent State University’s Metin Eren has a vision for his field’s future.