Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Léon Bakst, “Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé” for Daphnis et Chloé (ca. 1912), graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper. 17.5×11.1 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, ...

ABC12 visited Village Glass Works glassblowing and glass art studio in Auburn in Bay County. The business is family-owned and operated now by mother and daughter duo Debra and Sarah VanTol. It has ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century A.D., acquired a head by the great baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The fusion of old ...

In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates does not learn to argue, he will be unable to defend himself in court. Rhetoric, Callicles’ teacher Gorgias ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

Robin Reames is a professor of rhetoric who teaches in the English department at the University of Illinois Chicago. Below, Robin shares five key insights from her new book, The Ancient Art of ...

Though the term “strike” was coined in 1768, the history of work stoppages is much older and artists have been involved from the start. The “Turin Strike Papyrus” (1187–1157 BCE), cyperus fiber, ink, ...