In the spring of 1956, two young artists from Brooklyn noticed that something momentous was happening in the South. Newspapers gave increasing attention to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. It ...

Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the ...

Sketching and drawing have grown in popularity in recent years – why? Beverley D'Silva explores the healing power of mindful drawing. Drawing is arguably the most ancient form of visual art – whether ...

Archaeologists have found the largest grouping of cave art drawings made by Native Americans prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers. Scientists took thousands of high-tech photos to scan the ...

An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, ...

The artist, best-known for elaborate wire sculptures, has a new exhibition at the Whitney highlighting lesser-known drawings “Drawing, always, was the through line.” So concludes Whitney curator Kim ...

When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests a professor. When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT ...

You may have heard of ‘outside art’ before – but how about letting a tree sketch the next picture to adorn your living room wall? British artist Tim Knowles has created an amazing project to create ...