Where did the myth that English men (and probably women) were hiding tails beneath their clothing come from? And what was that about eggs?

The first exhibition of paintings that would come to be described as Impressionism opened in Paris on April 15, 1874.

Contrary to popular misconceptions, Europeans in the Middle Ages took pains to keep themselves clean.

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

Though technological innovation has always influenced considerations of art—think of Duchamp’s controversial urinal—the constant throughout is human touch.

How does generative artificial intelligence upend conventional understandings of who is and what makes for a true artist?

Climate activist attacks on works by van Gogh, Vermeer, and other art world titans are the latest in a tradition of destruction that hearkens to the early Christian zealots.

Renaissance painters incorporated the inherent qualities of stone to produce works of art that revealed the beauty of nature and hand of God.

Drawing on traditions of monastic power, Modi’s party is trying to promote the image of India as a vishwaguru, or teacher to the world.

Rumor had it that these machines were once the Prince’s servants, whom he murdered and transformed into anatomical displays. Scholars showed otherwise.