The bare chest of a female figure in Michelangelo’s rendition of The Flood “shows features consistent with breast carcinoma,” according to new research.

A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works.

Over seven years, director Nanfu Wang documented Cuban activist Rosa María Payá’s fight for a democratic Cuba — and her journey to endorsing the MAGA movement.

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At the end of October, an unidentified vandal ripped portions of the "History in the Making" (2021) mural, which commemorates Tulsa's Greenwood district. (photo by and courtesy Tulsa Police Department ...

What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under ...

Ai Weiwei’s artistic interventions, Black artists’ responses to ancient Egypt, and the impressive offerings of El Museo’s ...

Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary ...

Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her ...

Daryaei, the student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code, fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.

The filmmaker’s return to a more coincidental, permissive mode of observation in tandem exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Beacon is enlivening, if not always incisive.

Matthew Chavez launched his participatory art project in 2016, creating a space for the city’s private sentiments in the wake of Trump’s first win.