3-D Imaging Reveals Toll of Parthenon Marbles’ Deterioration
A new study of 19th-century plaster casts of the controversial sculptures highlight details lost over the past 200 years
See Four Spanish Masterpieces Updated to Reflect the Consequences of Climate Change
Timed to coincide with the ongoing U.N. Climate Change Conference, the campaign is a digital effort to warn the world
A Great Wave of Hokusai
The Freer Gallery—home to the largest collection of the popular Japanese artist’s paintings—unveils 120 rarely seen works
Long Sidelined, Native Artists Finally Receive Their Due
At the American Indian Museum in NYC, curators paint eight decades of American Indian artwork back into the picture
The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2019
This year’s top titles deliver strange animals, mouth-watering foods and biographies of unsung heroes
Infrared Reveals Egyptian Mummies’ Hidden Tattoos
The mummies of seven women found at Egypt’s Deir el-Medina site bear tattoos including crosses, baboons and hieroglyphics
Marcel Duchamp Played With the Definition of Art and Now the Public Can, Too
Art connoisseurs Aaron and Barbara Levine amassed a formidable body of the artist’s works; they’d like nothing better than for you to see it
London Exhibit Celebrates Indian Artists Who Captured Natural History for the East India Company
Paintings once anonymized as “company art” will finally be labeled with the names of their creators
The Distinctive ‘Habsburg Jaw’ Was Likely the Result of the Royal Family’s Inbreeding
New research finds correlation between how inbred rulers of a notoriously intermarrying dynasty were and the prominence of their jutting jaw
New Exhibition Leads to Discovery of Dutch Painter’s Signature and Fingerprint
In advance of a retrospective at Museum Prinsenhof Delft, experts took a closer look at three works by Pieter de Hooch
Visitors Can Watch the Restoration of Michelangelo’s ‘Bandini Pietà’
The artist once took a sledgehammer to the sculpture, which is now housed at a museum in Florence
3-D Scans of the Bust of Nefertiti Are Now Available Online
A German museum released the digital data to artist Cosmo Wenman after a hoax heist and lengthy legal battle
Archaeologists Identify 143 New Nazca Lines
The trove of newly documented geoglyphs includes a humanoid figure identified by artificial intelligence
Celebrating a Century of Women’s Contributions to Comics and Cartoons
A new exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment features innovative illustrations from the suffragist movement to today
Baltimore Museum of Art Will Collect Works Exclusively by Women in 2020
“To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical,” says museum director Christopher Bedford
An Unidentified Botticelli Painting Spent Decades Hidden in Welsh Museum’s Storeroom
The newly attributed masterpiece was previously believed to be a crude copy of the artist’s work
Three Portraits of Victorious Elizabeth I to Be Displayed Together for the First Time
The paintings were created in the wake of England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada
The Genre-Bending, Death-Defying Triumph of Charlotte Salomon’s Art
Prior to her murder in Auschwitz, the Jewish-German artist created a monumental visual narrative centered on her family history
Rare Portrait of Teenage Mozart Heads to Auction
“This charming likeness of him is my solace,” wrote Pietro Lugiati, the Italian nobleman who commissioned the artwork, in a letter to Mozart’s mother
The Dutch Golden Age’s Female Painters Finally Receive a Show of Their Own
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights eight unheralded 17th- and 18th-century artists
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