Archaeologists in Italy have stumbled upon some intricate artwork inside a small Pompeii house that reportedly was buried in ...

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website ... Because of the crown of ivy and the nebrid it is more probably Dionysus.

In one painting, a satyr — a figure that’s part man and part ... one that depicts a face that is attributable to a companion of Dionysus, the god of wine. A sphynx, another mythical creature, lies ...

If anything, art is... about morals, about our belief in humanity. Without that, there simply is no art. Ai Weiwei The aim of activist artists is to create art that is a form of political or social ...

Dionysos stands in the center flanked on either side by a pair ... For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at [email protected] This page is a ...

"He was just doing his job," she said. Sietske van Zanten, the museum's director, said: "Our art encourages visitors to see everyday objects in a new light." "By displaying artworks in unexpected ...

A staff member at a Dutch museum accidentally threw a piece of art in the bin, thinking it was rubbish. The work, titled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was created by French artist ...

The “tiny” house, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said, was found during excavations at the Insula dei casti Amanti ...

Does art matter? It must do. To misquote someone else in an entirely different context: it hasn’t gone away you know, and painting is its oldest form. After being astonished at the age of the ...

A Dutch museum had to pick artwork out of the bin after a member of staff thought that the display, which consisted of two empty beer cans, was leftover rubbish. All The Good Times We Spent ...

A Dutch museum had to fish an art exhibit out of the bin after a maintenance worker mistook a display of two beer cans for rubbish and disposed of them. The art display, All the Good Times We ...