For stars from Bette Davis to Angelina Jolie, the ultimate rite of passagesince the 1950s has been sitting for the legendary ...

Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird, the creative forces behind The Paper Ark, craft detailed miniature animal figures that often fit on a fingertip.

Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist who brings political street art to walls, bridges, and buildings worldwide. ...

The museum tells a less familiar story about the history of public housing. “It was a decent, lovely place to live,” a former ...

When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and ...

The piece, titled Study of Reclining Lions, had been in the same family's possession for 150 years since the posthumous sale of the artist's studio in 1864. The work is set to go to auction where it ...

From singing to dancing to sculpture, do animals make art? It could be argued that the making of sculptures or courtship displays have a very specific purpose, that of seduction.

Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...

Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we tell whether something is a ...

He also used his sitters as models for his subject paintings, turning them into archetypes. He saw in his friend the art critic Jappe Nielsen a man suffering from love, pining for the painter Oda ...

[Photo: doug/Flickr] Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we ...

marrying a famous man.” Such discrepancies are of course universal and stretch well beyond the art world, but can feel especially heightened for creatives privy to outside acclaim, particularly ...