The Grand Palais in Paris has mounted an ambitious Diego Velázquez exhibition, and, according to a French critic, it’s riddled with distinctive ambiguities. Writing for French Journal Le Monde, art ...

Art is always open to interpretation. You can spend hours poring over a piece and always find something different every time you see it. Paintings, altar pieces and frescos by genius’ such as Da Vinci ...

In his new series “Stateless,” presented this summer at Larkin Durey in London, Massoud Hayoun turns painting into a vivid negotiation between memory, exile, and political resistance. The eight works, ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.

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The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artifacts. The mental representation of symbols -- objects that arbitrarily represent other objects - ...