Recently rediscovered 100-year-old posters showing the struggle for votes ... Addressed simply to "the Librarian", a bundle wrapped in plain brown paper was delivered to Cambridge University ...

A detailed Renaissance engraving once saved from the dump by an 11-year-old boy has been identified as the work of Albrecht ...

His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...

At 80, he was found one day weeping at his workbench because he thought that he had not learned enough about the art of drawing. On his deathbed nine years later, he cried out in anguish, ...

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before ...

A miniature book fair, printmaking workshops, and generous price tags more than make up for the more gimmicky aspects of this ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

"Previously, rock art found in European sites dated to around 14,000 to 21,000 years old were considered to be the world's oldest clearly narrative artworks," said the paper in Nature. The ...

Sold at German auctioneer Hargesheimer, this painting has earned scorn from Old Master experts who doubt its authenticity.

This joint exhibition has attracted the younger generation, art lovers in their 20s, who are now frequenting galleries on ...

It caught me by surprise, because the plan had been for a handler to lead my camel on a short, gentle walk at the far end of ...

In this edited extract from his new book, The Irish Times columnist explains that the story of money is the story of humanity ...