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The National Garden of American Heroes is one of President Donald Trump's key priorities ahead of the 250th anniversary of ...
Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...
Thousands of sculpted heads – captive African men, women, and children – meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo ...
After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.
It will be on display in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, from May 30th until 24th October. Admission is free.
#53 Ancient Greek Gold Tiara (Diadem), 325-330 Bc , Demetrias/Thessaly Stathatos Collection Gallery, National Archaeological Museum, Athens Photo: Gsry Todd Image credits: Archeology and art ...
Bowers Museum Chief Curator, Tianlong Jiao, left, gives the media a first look at the “Kneeling Archer,” a 2,200-year-old piece of art from China just unboxed at the museum in Santa Ana on ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...
The National Gallery has spent more than £16m on a mysterious painting – despite not knowing who the artist is. The 16th-century altarpiece – which has not been exhibited in over 60 years ...
The National Gallery is celebrating its bicentenary with the acquisition of a most mysterious painting, an altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and two saints, dating from 1500-10.
From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.