A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

An Upstate New York Middle School is coming under fire for showing students explicit artwork, but there's a little more to ...

Draw-a-thon, a free, 24-hour, drawing marathon for star artists, art students, kids and everyone else starts Saturday.

Newly uncovered cave art in Europe has revealed that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic expression long before modern humans arrived, rewriting the story of human cultural origins. Researchers ...

New research reveals Neanderthals created cave art long before humans arrived. Spanish caves host hand stencils, dots and geometric pigment designs. The dates suggest these works are at least 64,000 ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated. “Ground,” a permanent installation by ...

A large cave known as Gua Sireh, which is located in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo in Malaysia, features one of the most extensive collections of recently drawn cave art found anywhere ...

Cave painting in the southern areas of South America may have started 8,200 years ago, several millennia earlier than previously thought. The cave art, located in Patagonia, Argentina, was thought to ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

Note to editors: Selected high-resolution images for publication are available only through the museum’s Dropbox account. Email [email protected] to request the link. The Smithsonian American Art ...

A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo. Negative hands were often made using a spit-painting technique in which someone would place their hand on the ...