Oct. 12 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include: Advertisement -- Baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Cronin in 1906 -- Doris Miller, awarded the Navy Cross for ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774 Greifswald–1840 Dresden) with a celebratory exhibition.

Christie’s announced new sales have been added to its April Calendar of Online-Only Auctions, spanning fine arts, decorative arts, and luxury categories.

Art Galleries that Draw You In: 5 Artistic Spaces in Brazil Connecting Indoors and Outdoors Architectural competitions are valuable learning tools, offering architects a unique opportunity to ...

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a savvy French curator who had been working for the resistance Sonja ...

Years ago, Hiroyuki Hosoda, a Lower House legislator from Shimane Prefecture, was answering a question in the Diet when he blurted out, “I want to promote the Izumo dialect.” I imagine he ...

If anything, art is... about morals, about our belief in humanity. Without that, there simply is no art. Ai Weiwei The aim of activist artists is to create art that is a form of political or social ...

Graffiti art has its origins in 1970s New York, when young people began to use spray paint and other materials to create images on buildings and on the sides of subway trains. Such graffiti can range ...

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Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls, or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...