Everyone perceives art differently. Sometimes you can look at a piece of artwork and feel a deeply personal connection to it because of its conceptional backstory. But who's to say where the meaning ...

This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks’ visual qualities. “They’re not beautiful,” said Aaron ...

Bourgeois civilization, now spread all over the planet, and which has yet to be successfully overcome anywhere, is haunted by a shadow: its culture, which appears in the modern dissolution of all its ...

As works of art age, their component materials can change in ways that signal maturity, history, and authenticity, said Paul Whitmore, a research scientist at the Institute for the Preservation of ...

This question immediately brings up a whole host of other questions. Almost anything can constitute art in this day and age. One need only look as far as Mark Rothko to see this. His pieces are ...

When Marcel Duchamp presented a urinal as art, he changed modern culture forever. This video explains the shock, controversy and lasting impact of Fountain, the work that challenged what art could be ...