Rock art along the Orinoco river in South America is made up of some of the largest etchings we know of and could date back 2000 years

New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, 2020.

The museums of Europe have begun reopening their doors to art lovers desperate to see old favourites and new works

I am cursing my bad luck not to be stuck in lockdown in the Prado. A friend wishes she had stowed away in a closet before they bolted the doors of the National Gallery. Others would give anything for a week in the Rijksmuseum, a day in the Uffizi, an hour with Rembrandt or Vermeer, even just a few minutes with a Samuel Palmer moonscape in the Ashmolean or a Turner sunrise at Tate Britain. Museums are places of the heart.

We see art in time and place; we cannot see it otherwise. Of course there are other whereabouts of the works we most long to set eyes on again, during this evil pandemic: the cave paintings at Chaumet in France, Fra Angelico’s Annunciation in a Florentine monastery, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty coiled in the glistening waters of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. These were all chosen in an unofficial and entirely self-selecting Twitter survey (mine), along with Leonardo’s The Last Supper and James Turrell’s Deer Shelter Skyspace, framing the blue heavens above Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Video: Learn about ecoartspace and how that organization addresses environmental issues through the visual arts.

Video: Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every da

Hilma af Klint didn't invent abstract art, but her stature today reflects something more important

The 15th-century edition of Hafez's "Divan" will be sold at Sotheby's next month

This fun Tumblr thread explores a notorious art world drama. The drama started with Anish Kapoor being a prick about ownership over colors. Then, we see another dude named Stuart Semple, come into the mix, and take things to petty heights like never before. It's honestly an awe-inspiring level of petty. Art world dramas are fun. 

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The gold-leafed volume by famous Persian poet Hafez was recovered by Arthur Brand. It had vanished from an antique collectors home after he died in 2007, along with other works.

Rotch Library - N6770.L6495 2018

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IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated

Rotch Library - N7260.S26 2018