For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and figures that appear to predate our own species. The latest discoveries ...

Images generated by the system that were most highly ranked by humans (all images courtesy Ahmed Elgammal/Rutgers University) The results of this study were published last month in a paper penned by ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that contain archaeological remains. When you purchase through links on our site ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

With an idiosyncratic, graphic visual language, Paris Brosnan is making his name as an expressive painter of inner worlds. Despite largely taking inspiration from 20th-century Modernism as well as ...

Panel 78 in La Pasiega cave, which includes red horizontal and vertical lines that date to more than 64,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens arrived in the area (photo by C.D Standish, A.W.G. Pike ...

Archaeologist David Whitley has studied some of the most ancient sites and art works created by prehistoric human beings. In his new book, Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity ...

AI tools are exposing hidden truths in art history, analyzing brushstrokes to reveal who really painted the world’s ...

People in the Downtown Arts District have also influenced and inspired me. Organizations and galleries like the Downtown Arts District Association, Art for Art’s Sake, Studio 7, Delurk Gallery and ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- British artist Jenny Saville has spent her career using paint to depict flesh. Her large, unflinching, empathetic paintings of bodies -- mostly women's -- have made her one of the ...