Asheville Crankie Fest is a celebration of artists, musicians and makers. This is the inaugural festival to celebrate the ...

For much of human history, the ancient medium of ceramics may have been associated, as much as anything, with Ming vases, women’s work, decorative arts, and humble utilitarian objects. Yet the art ...

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

What’s in a name? And what is the power of that name to communicate artistry and prestige? Since antiquity, names have had the power to generate relationships, tying us to people, to places, and also ...

Young Peking opera artists are devoting years to mastering its demanding techniques, hoping to win over today's audiences ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Art is not eternal, but it’s probably the closest that humanity can get. From the viewer's perspective, the art of the past exists in the present when you look at it. From a living artist’s ...

Egyptologist and paleography expert Elizabeth Bettles analyzes hieroglyphs painted on the walls of tombs in the Theban necropolis. By identifying different “handwriting” techniques — distinct shapes, ...