Actor-cum-artist James Franco is at it again. In a new video commissioned by Sotheby’s for their Artist Response series—in which the auction powerhouse invites artists to create a work in response to ...

The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, located on the campus of Saginaw Valley State University, will be highlighting art from the Harlem Renaissance through its first special exhibition of 2024 ...

IT'S A RARE PRIVILEGE to see an exhibition as nearly perfect as "Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400–1460," the new show at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. A joint ...

What do a 15th-century sculpture and an Ikea table have in common? In the case of Luca della Robbia's "The Visitation": Both require assembly. "The Visitation" arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in ...

A team of leading art researchers has revealed that two bronze sculptures of nude men riding panther-like creatures are the work of Michelangelo, bearing hallmarks of the Renaissance artist’s oeuvre ...

Is there an objective biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? New research uses fMRI scans to study the neural activity in subjects with ...

Renaissance and patronage at Florence -- Background to Renaissance sculpture -- From Gothic to Renaissance -- Donatello: maturity (c. 1420-1466) -- "Sweet style" at Florence: Luca della Robbia ; ...

‘From the very beginning,” says Olafur Eliasson, “my interest was to dematerialize the conventional art object—its mass, weight and gravity—and all the traditional definitions of sculpture.” In his ...