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.

The British aristocrat Horace Walpole's villa Strawberry Hill was said to be evidence of his "degeneracy."

Eighteenth-century Italian noblewomen had one indispensable accessory: an extramarital lover.

The miniature paintings celebrated and commemorated love at a time when public expressions of affection were uncouth.