A Community Pet Food Drive will be held from 8:45-10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Aiken County Animal Shelter, 333 Wire Road ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

Reflection on the Sculpture Let the Oppressed Go Free is a powerful sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, depicting ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate,” an exhibition including major modern artists, reveals the connection between our naked ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...