Taking part in arts programming can help students develop awareness of social injustice and increase engagement in social action, research finds.

A new algorithm called ArtEmis can scan paintings and explain the emotion they convey, researchers report. It could improve the way computers "see."

Archaeologists have long debated the relationship of psychedelics to rock art. New evidence from Pinwheel Cave in California clarifies the connection.

Hagia Sophia has been a cathedral, a mosque, a museum, and now again a mosque. But past conquests don't fully explain its legacy, a historian says.

For decades, the FBI kept tabs Black writers, artists, and activists, with agents reading their work closely and even creating their own misleading works.

Whether taking in art or making it ourselves, long stays at home during the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a new appreciation of the arts.

The pigment in Gwion Gwion style rock art makes radiocarbon dating impossible. Instead, researchers used mud wasp nests to date the paintings.

Check out a huge online collection of stamps from North Korea to get a peek inside the insular totalitarian country and the face it wants to show the world.

3D-printing has created two tiny versions of Michelangelo's "David," one 1 mm tall, and the other just one-tenth the size of that.