An 83-year-old retired teacher, K Narayana Naik, affectionately known as the ‘Scholarship Master’, dedicates his life to guiding students across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. He visits over 350 colleges ...

A woman bought a 100-year-old French painting online—only to find that her dog had a very strong reaction to it. Rebecca Joens (@snappedbybec) shared a video on TikTok, which has racked up over 2.3 ...

Very few masterpieces are as anarchic, in both composition and atmosphere, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance.” The 1566 painting, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows Flemish ...

Finally sharing my long-overdue hair tutorial! Learn step-by-step oil painting techniques to create realistic, textured hair in your artwork. #OilPainting #ArtTutorial #HairPainting ...

The collector Thomas S. Kaplan is self-professedly evangelical about Rembrandt. Over the past two decades, he and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have built the Leiden Collection, one of the world’s ...

While excavating a massive Roman cemetery in the Netherlands, archaeologists discovered an unusual oil lamp that may depict the ancient god of wine. The "filling hole," where oil would have been ...

A philosopher interested in public life can learn from how the popular media handle issues of art and morality. I read with interest now and then Slipped Disc, a web site devoted to gossip about the ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

2025 has definitely been the year of looking back and being inspired by design styles of the past, even the looks of the 1990s have made a comeback. And while the reason for that is definitely linked ...

A new study is revealing that ‘Old Master’ artists — including Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and other Italian Renaissance masters — may have added protein in the form of egg yolk to their oil ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...