Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

The Jockey of Artemision is a magnificent surviving statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example of a racehorse in Greek ...

Emmanuel Item has tattooed hundreds of people with designs that draw deeply on his Nigerian heritage, connecting people in ...

Hidden beneath the ancient canopy of Sri Lanka’s dry forests and shaded cliff faces lies a gallery like no other — a ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

In the cool, misty morning air around the Wudang Mountains in Hubei province, a tall German man dressed in black robes slowly ...

Kolam art, a traditional practice from southern India, involves creating intricate designs on the ground using rice flour or ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman ...

Jamdani weaving, an ancient craft from South Asia, is famous for its intricate patterns and lightweight fabric ...