Stare into the eyes of "The Watcher," British artist Sophie Green’s portrait of an African wild dog, and you’ll see there’s something reflected. A triangular outline, of a distant mountain perhaps, or ...

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 ...

An exhibition titled 'Silent Conversations' showcases 250 paintings by 50 tribal artists from around 30 tiger reserves. These ...

Some painters have a favorite brush, but few of them are as attached to it as Brie the Striped Skunk. With a quick dip of her fluffy tail in her palette and a brief scurry across the canvas, this ...

A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth century.

More than four decades after Jean-Michel Basquiat and his gallerists canceled a contentious exhibition in Italy featuring eight newly commissioned paintings, a new exhibition is reuniting all of the ...

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 ...

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 ...