The gold statuette has weathered 97 ceremonies, countless acceptance-speech tears and at least one airport dumpster. But can it survive being reinterpreted by an ensemble of boundary-pushing West ...

As she prepares to show at the Venice Biennale, the octogenarian artist speaks about what shaped her work and her profound ...

A film charity announced Friday that it has found two previously lost 1960s episodes of iconic sci-fi TV series “Doctor Who” ...

Before Disney softened them for the screen, fairy tales were strange, unsettling stories about monsters, danger and survival.

At the mouth of the Blanton Museum of Art, a cluster of paintings spanning technique and medium welcome you into Charles Butt’s colorful and curious tour of American modernism, currently on its ...

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In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Works newly attributed to the Renaissance artist had exciting stories behind them. But experts say they are unlikely to be by his hand.

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

the work exceeds its function as an artwork, becoming a meditation on plasticity and on how the past, present and future remain equally in flux and ...

Artist Satish Gupta, whose retrospective is on in Ahmedabad, on sculpting shunya, light and cosmic consciousness ...