Once a brilliant hue, the pigment verdigris is now mostly brown.

Put a bird on it!

Immediate excitement has greeted one of the first sign of life from the hugely popular franchise since the publicity-shy artist retired it in 1995

Artist Daniel Monnier spent a couple of decades away before returning to complete his vision.

Stormzy's stab vest and a cradle surrounded by CCTV cameras appeared overnight at a shop in London.

Christ Mocked, by the 13th-century painter Cimabue, could be worth up to €6m

Formidable women across centuries and continents have wielded influence through their impassioned support of art and culture.

Finding beauty in 'ugly' animals could help conserve weirdest looking wildlife.

This bookstore in Shanghai will make you feel like you've entered an alternate universe with stairs on the ceiling.

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.

A series of sketches and hand prints made by Leonardo Da Vinci, and hidden underneath one of his most famous paintings for more than 500 years, have been revealed for the first time.

Edward Burtynsky travels the world trying to capture striking images of humanity's impact on the planet, from the fossil-like shapes left behind by drills in a Potash mine to the luminescent colours of lithium ponds.

“People have been upset about nude women for years.” That’s what Mike Edison, who has a knack for stating the obvious, has to say. The author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers, Edison literally wrote the book on nude women and the exact ways people have been upset about them ever since a naked Marilyn Monroe first graced the pages of Playboy back in 1953.

VILSHULT is an IKEA ready-to-hang photo of Amsterdam that has been sold over 427,000 times. After many of my friends asked me why I bought such a “mediocre” photo for my living room, I decided to find out how this photo was made and how it ended up on IKEA’s shelves and in almost half a million households. What I learned was fascinating.

When a former soldier learned that his village was going to be demolished 10 years ago, he picked up a brush and started painting – and he hasn’t stopped since.

Sister Wendy Beckett, the cloistered nun who ventured out of seclusion to become a celebrity art critic and historian, died Wednesday at England’s Carmelite Monastery.

The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination.

The famous moving gaze of the "Mona Lisa" has been challenged by researchers.

Graphic design studio Super Terrain’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic Fahrenheit-451 took the internet by storm, thanks to a video showing how its all-black pages become readable text when exposed to an open flame. (This will, and quite possibly should, also work with a hair dryer or something else not completely on fire.) And now, for only $451 — get it? — you can preorder one to keep on a specially-heated shelf in your home! If you have $451 to drop on an artist’s book, we figure you could have custom heated shelves.

Something in the new Oscar de la Renta boutique in Paris was not what it seemed.