Chen Wenling, “Riding to Happiness (with 56 little pigs)” (2006) fiberglass, Denver Art Museum (all image by the author for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) As far back as ancient Sumer and ...

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, ...

The red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a cave in the Indonesian part of Borneo is the oldest example of an animal drawing, experts say. Researchers say that the 5-foot-wide sketch is ...

Not everyone can take a blank sheet of paper and turn it into a stunningly realistic animal portrait. It takes an artist with a sharp eye for detail and the skill to capture the lifelike essence of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) hangs a remarkable oil painting by the Dutch golden-age artist Frans Post ...

A man has revealed a collection of medieval drawings of animals which look nothing like the beasts they were based on. Daniel Holland, from the UK, created a Twitter thread and mused that the artists ...

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