New shows at the National Gallery and Phillips Collection more than compensate while many of D.C.’s Rothko masterworks are on loan to Paris Visitors who stroll through the National Gallery of Art’s ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. The four dots painted across the back of this aurochs (wild ox) in the Lascaux cave ...

With a quick dip of her fluffy tail in her palette and a brief scurry across the canvas, this black-and-white ambassador ...

When it comes to art, hearing about and visually seeing oil on canvas is a regular feat, but have you seen oil on metal?

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...