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While the word “muse” is often used to describe an inspiration or influence behind an artwork, it usually means we are either idealizing a woman or ignoring a female artist’s accomplishments.

In new community guidelines released this week, Facebook announced a new policy meant to halt the sales of looted artifacts on its platform.

From the anatomical features of Da Vinci to the fractured features of modernist portraiture, the human head has reigned supreme in Art History.

A recently botched restoration of a once beautiful painting of the Virgin Mary is proving once again why it’s best to leave some tasks to the experts.

The artist invites us into her studio to give a glimpse of her life during quarantine, her creative process, and share her hopes for the future.

As a jewel or as a weapon, from China to Mexico, passing through India and New Zealand, jade has influenced the political, social, and economic life of many different cultures around the world.

Traveling writer Maxime du Camp changed photographic history when he grew tired of sketching the sights.

Though artists on the cutting edge claimed to revile it, academic art was pivotal in the development of modernism.

On-site research was put on hold abruptly in March around the world. Many students conducting their work while on fellowship-funded research years had to return home, their research paused awkwardly, without any clear idea of when they could resume their progress.

Ask the curator, not the concierge in these nine hotels with stellar art collections.