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Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. These moai were restored in the 1990's by a Japanese research team after a cyclone knocked them over in the 1960's.
Climate Change Reveals New Moai Statue on Easter Island

Last week there was an exciting discovery on the remote volcanic …

Terracotta votives from the sanctuary of Minerva Medica, between 4th to 1st centuries BC.
New Capitoline Museums Exhibit Will Delight Archaeologists, Not Tourists

‘Rome of the Republic: The Story of Archaeology’ is a new exhibition at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. On display are fragments of the pediment of Temple A in…

Daniel's Brain, Sagittal MRI view of a neurologist's MRI. Courtesy Elizabeth Jameson
Neuroaesthetics: How Art is Scientifically Proven to Help Brain Health
Research shows that art is not just a fundamental aspect of our humanity, but also essential to our well-being.
Giorgione allegorical painting of a nude female figure drawing water from a well while figures behind her play instruments in the grass
How Pastoral Landscapes Paved the way for Cottagecore
The contemporary pastoral reverie known as cottagecore is one of the visual trends that has defined 2020.
Glass art by Dale Chihuly at an extensive exhibition at Kew Gardens, London, in 2005
Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly

Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly, a documentary about the world-renowned…

J.M.W Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844). Oil on canvas, 91 × 121.8 cm (36 × 48.0 in). National Gallery, London
J.M.W. Turner: Britain's Greatest Maritime Painter

J.M.W Turner is known for his unique form and prodigious talent; he is known as one of the greatest British painters of all time. …

Renoir's Marine Guernesey (1883)
Looted Works by Impressionist Masters Returned by Musee d’Orsay

Between 1933 and 1945, millions of artworks and artifacts were stolen as a result of Nazi persecution, especially from Jewish owners, and …

Katarzyna Kobro, Spatial Composition 9, 1933. WikiArt.
Katarzyna Kobro Reimagined Russian Constructivism

Born out of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Constructivism challenged notions of creation versus construction in the art world.…

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave, 1850, oil on canvas, Russian Museum
Russian Marine Painter Ivan Aivazovsky Made Waves

Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter. He is considered to be one of the greatest masters of marine art. Aivazovsky, born in 1817 in Feodosia, Crimea…

Thomas Cole 'Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund', 1827, oil on canvas
The Life and Art of Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole is remembered as one of America's earliest and most significant landscape painters.
Japanese Toys! From Kokeshi to Kaiju exhibition at San Francisco Airport (SFO
A Cure for the Common Layover: Airport Museums

Long layovers are synonymous with exhaustion, boredom, and anxiety as beleaguering travelers wait for their connecting flights.…

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892:95, Oil on Canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago
Green in the 19th Century: A Cultural History
In many cultures, green is the color of rebirth and prosperity, a harbinger of life and spring. However, placed within the context of the nineteenth century, green begins to represent the…
Statue of the so-called “Old Market Woman.” Roman copy of a Greek Hellenistic original, ca. 14-68 CE.
Hellenistic Sculpture: Realist Art in Ancient Greece
The ancient Greek body is perhaps one of the most recognizable and influential forms in art history.
People walk next to a mosque destroyed by an earthquake in Malatya, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. (DIA images via AP)
Earthquake in Turkey Damages Cultural Heritage Sites
On Monday February 6, at 4:17 am local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, lasting over two minutes.
Foot of World's Tallest Statue
India's Statue of Unity is the World’s Tallest Statue, Here's Its Story
As the tallest statue in the world upon its completion in 2018, India’s Statue of Unity represents far more than a vanity project to reach incredible heights.