Explore the creative process behind a detailed body painting artwork, from the initial concept to the final artistic touches.

From its new galleries off the museum’s Great Hall, the Costume Institute seeks to put clothing at the center of art history.

Andrés Hurtado found work by Joaquín Sorolla after its owners mislaid it, before responding to theft alert The mystery of a small and very valuable picture by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla that ...

Exclusive: Unknown hand covered up artist’s depiction of diverse crowd during influx of refugees to Leiden in 1620s Layers of overpaint have been removed from a 17th-century painting, confirming that ...

The first part of a London auction of a museum-worthy private art collection raked in $392.6 million Wednesday, powered by an Amedeo Modigliani nude portrait that set a new European record. Meanwhile, ...

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Before Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist, became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, in 1983, she’d never had a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The painting that won The Doyles Landscape Art Award last year has been revealed as an imitation of a 2011 Nicholas Harding painting. A leading Queensland art dealer says the award-winning work is a ...

Body oils are the unsung hydrating heroes of skincare. They offer many of the same benefits as a body lotion, but they’re better at creating a barrier to lock in moisture. I consulted with deputy ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant. Kings ...