On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look similar to ...

Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...

Tonight: Artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Council Gallery, 645 Main St. in Carbondale, for an exhibit featuring work by Charles Andrade, Mary Whalen, Nancy Kullgren, Virginia Neary-Carrithers ...

Neanderthals are getting a well-deserved scientific rewrite. A growing body of paleoarchaeological evidence indicates that our extinct cousins were far from the lumbering oafs we initially believed ...

If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

At the Dallas Museum of Art, visitors with red-green deficiencies can now check out a pair of color blindness alleviation lenses at no cost. Kazuya Sakai, "Integrales II (Edgard Varèse) (1979), ...