I have this fantasy where the artists go on strike. I dream that one by one, in their own quiet ways, the artists, the writers, the musicians, the comedians, the graphic designers, the marketing gu…

YInMn Blue, the pigment discovered in 2009 at Oregon State University, has finally been approved by the EPA for use in artists' materials.

A thriving graffiti culture has been brewing for decades in Beijing, featuring Chinese characters, animals of the zodiac ... and complaints about the price of pork

Authorities managed to recover the Yves Tanguy work—left behind by a businessman bound for Tel Aviv—before it was destroyed

A 73-year-old grandfather may seem like an unlikely social media sensation, but Japan's Harumichi Shibasaki is defying stereotypes. The painter's YouTube channel, Watercolor by Shibasaki, features a series of how-to art videos and has amassed more than 700,000 subscribers. His most popular video, a tree painting tutorial, has been watched more than five million times.

They are impressive, perhaps even inspiring, but can artworks created by computers be considered as art?

If you’re reading this, chances are you have some sort of a relationship with Google. Most of us rely on the search engine to look for information instead of storing it on our own brains (which experts say is making us stupid), heading to it for searching, surfing and sometimes even contributing to the endless databases.

Videos of Jonothon Lyons, an accomplished performer, have gone viral for his romps around New York City in a lifelike rat costume.

How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.

A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prank

“We are thrilled to learn of its discovery — one that came about thanks to close looking and careful observation by a museum visitor,” Peabody Essex Museum Director and CEO Brian Kennedy said in a statement.

A Madonna and Child painting with a history almost as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile has been identified as an authentic Raphael canvas by Czech company InsightART, which used a robotic X-ray scanner to investigate the artwork.

Included in Christie's auction of Swiss art last week (7-29 September) were two works being sold by Unicredit, an Italian bank. Lot 10, A Jean Tinguely sculpture, fetched CHF 75,000 ($82,552) which, the bank says, will help fund its Social Impact Banking initiatives. Few took notice of the niche auction, which was held online. The majority of works were sold by private collectors.

'The Art of Behaving Badly' is the first book to document the career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to today. Here, the collective's founders discuss their ongoing fight for equality in art and the world.

The ancient paintings depict close relationships between humans and animals

A scientist has spent more than 14 years analyzing high-resolution images of the famous painting.

The most famous street artist on the planet holds no trademark on his works, but the enigmatic Briton definitely owns his identity, as a new exhibit shows.

Newly acquired by the British Museum, the trove of illustrations dates to 1829

Whether you think graffiti is a subversive, democratic art form or a public nuisance, it harks back to our cave-painting days

A documentary-style film exploring traditional Japanese handcrafts and artists from Ishikawa and Gifu, in partnership with Japan Tourism.