SwarmSketch allows any user to vote on every previously drawn line and add a new line to the sketch. The final result is truly the collective vision of an independent group of line artists. The only ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

What is art’s purpose? Below are three ideas. One clear example is given by Dave Krieger in his Feb. 26 Daily Camera editorial, “Art and immigration.” There he discusses the 2007 film “The Visitor” ...

It's no surprise that the art deco movement was born around the conclusion of World War I. It was a symbol of hope, a new beginning that parted ways with the past's opulent and overly ornate designs, ...

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Since the 1980s, the MTA has installed hundreds of site-specific works of art throughout the subway system. These pieces of art have been designed by world-famous artists in order to create a ...

Tim Reade doesn’t know exactly when his parents bought the print he recently brought to the Michigan Design Center for an appraisal. “Maybe sometime in the 1970s or ’80s,” he explained to appraiser ...

“I think my mother got them as a wedding gift sometime in the 1940s,” Sara Newell explained to DuMouchelles appraiser Catherine Page at a recent Trash or Treasure event held at the downtown auction ...

Picasso was a misogynist, Caravaggio a murderer, Bach an antisemite, Ezra Pound a fascist. Michael Jackson had his own issues. The list of terrible people making beautiful art is disturbingly long.