Britain's National Gallery sent its collection of masterpieces into a Welsh slate mine during World War Two, writes Holly Williams.

In a few days I will join a group exhibition, so some of the works are made ready to go on a short holiday. :-) In the clip you'll see all that take part, except one. I forgot that one until after I uploaded this clip. Of course. :-)

Kodály Method

These incredible images will be shown across the UK in 2019, in the largest exhibition of the artist's work in over 65 years.

A selection of pictures by members of the Association of Photographers, which celebrates it 50th anniversary in 2018.

The Parisian art collector Nicolas Laugero-Lasserre bought a new artwork created by an artificial intelligence for around $12,000.

A 1563 rule against “all lasciviousness” in religious art spelled trouble for nude paintings and sculptures. Here’s how this battle against indecency unfolded.

Both are 75 by 115 cm, done in acrylics and spraypaint and both are for sale. The one with the joint is a selfportrait, the other one is from my best friend, two hours after he got his new teeth.

Tate Modern focuses on a single year, with more than 100 paintings, sculpture and drawings. This was a fraction of the artist’s prodigious output.

A quicky. :-) - Acrylics on canvas, 24 * 30 cm - 2018

For centuries, people who were born blind have been the intellectual curios of philosophers studying consciousness. This is particularly true for those exploring the way our consciousness is effected by our bodies, especially our eyes, which Leonardo da Vinci described as the “window of the soul”.

When they first appeared on the scene in the 19th century, the Impressionists hardly received a warm welcome from the artistic institutions of their day. Their work was, supposedly, unfinished- you could see individual brush strokes, and the art wasn't focused on great historical moments and figures, but on everyday life and landscapes, with a focus on color and light. Indeed, the Impressionists were so named because their work seemed to offer a mere impression of the things depicted-the footprint but not the foot. The Impressionists and the public embraced their name, pejorative as it was meant to be- today, to describe a work as...

Squonks, Lindworms, Dijiangs, and more.

More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices.

Japanese design meets produce.

Can a cardboard box generate empathy between two strangers? Can it help them to fall in love? By Deenah Vollmer. (May 2014)

Civil rights activist Rodney Barnette was under government surveillance for over 10 years. Now his daughter, Sadie, has turned his 500-page FBI file into art.

Truly vibrant red was elusive for many years: until a mysterious dye was discovered in Mexico. Devon Van Houten Maldonado reveals how a crushed bug became a sign of wealth and status.

Originally published in 1491, Fasciculus medicinae quickly proved popular, and dozens of editions followed until 1522.

Non-invasive imaging reveals landscape painting beneath Pablo Picasso’s The Crouching Beggar but who created it remains a mystery

When truck driver Teri Horton bought a painting for $5, she didn’t dream it could be an original Jackson Pollock. This film follows her journey to discover the truth.

Huong Huynh makes fabric fare look good enough to eat.

More than 65,000 years ago, a Neanderthal reached out and made strokes in red ochre on the wall of a cave, and in doing so, became the first known artist on Earth, scientists claim. The discovery overturns the widely-held belief that modern humans are the only species to have expressed themselves through works of art.

Customs agents were checking for illegal drugs and found the suitcase that held the unframed picture.

An ex-Marine officer offers you the chance to commission one-of-a-kind art that is so good that major leaguers ask to keep it.

There’s a buying spree in China and massively popular shows in Japan and Korea. What is it about his work that resonates there?

Kuwaiti game developer Omar Khalil is in the process of building an augmented reality and location-based app called Artopia, which allows users to create and save 3D paintings out in the world. Others can then encounter the paintings, which are timestamped and show the username of the creator. Khali

For 60 years, this Japanese craftsman has been making silicone dinners that look good enough to eat.

Researchers have mapped Venezuela's rock art in unmatched detail. The map features some of the largest rock engravings in the world and some 2,000 years old.

In the 1610s, a powerful Catholic cardinal with an insatiable taste for art discovered a sculptor named Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the time, Bernini was a teenager, and still restoring ancient sculptures alongside his artist-father, Pietro. It wasn’t long after Cardinal Scipione Borghese laid eyes on Bernini’s own early work, however, that the young artist’s prospects began to change. Cardinal Borghese commissioned some of Bernini’s greatest works, amassing sculptures in his villa and helping to launch the career of the Renaissance icon.

Harry Bertschmann started his art career exhibiting alongside Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. For the next 60 years, he painted in almost total obscurity. Now he wants to get discovered.

The male body of Ancient Greece is ample, firm, and muscular—so why weren’t these same aesthetic ideals applied to the penis?

An exhibition of art collected from psychiatric hospitals between the two world wars examines the relationship between creativity and madness.