The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting Femme nue couchée sold for US$67.5 million on Tuesday at its auction debut at Sotheby's in New York, the United States, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art.

Museums in Lviv only dare open their doors a chink, convinced Russian forces will pillage Ukraine's culture as they have its villages.

The famed Macklowe collection, subject of a bitter divorce battle between a New York property developer in the United States and his ex-wife, became the most expensive art collection ever sold at auction on Monday.

Stitching together discarded mobile phone keyboards to make art, Ivorian artist Mounou Desire Koffi hopes to raise awareness about pollution.

Takashi Murakami is known for blending pop art and Asian fine arts, but for his latest exhibition in New York, he is moving into the metaverse.

Dating back to the 16th century, the tradition of scribing leaves with cultural knowledge compiled into lontar manuscripts is undergoing an exciting new illustrative era, driven by younger generations of contemporary artists. 

Bob Dylan's first permanent artwork has been installed on the grounds of a wine estate in southern France. 

Christie's expects Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the priciest 20th century artwork when the auction house puts it under the hammer on Monday.

Seeking to appease the god of storms and end a drought, men and women in tiger costumes whip each other mercilessly into submission in an ancient ritual in southern Mexico.

Batik, one of Indonesia’s most beloved icons and a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, comes in a rich variety of patterns, each with a unique origin and meaning. These are 20 batik patterns from across the archipelago.

A refugee held in Australia earned a finalist spot in the nation's top art prize for a self-portrait he painted with a toothbrush.

Raunchy scenes may redden faces at a new exhibition in Pompeii on art and sexuality in the ancient Roman city.

In "The Red Studio," the French artist reproduced almost a dozen miniature versions of his paintings and sculptures as a way to depict his workshop in the Paris suburbs -- not to mention play with perspective, color, time and space.

Using a craft gun to shoot yarn through a fabric screen, Nora Peng puts the finishing touches on a rug in the shape of a corgi's bottom — the perfect stress-relieving hobby for her frantic days.

Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life on Friday with the first famed samba school parades since COVID-19 started devastating Brazil.

As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the UNESCO World Heritage Site among thin crowds as the country recovers from the pandemic.

A miniature book of poems written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte was unveiled in New York on Thursday after more than a century hidden away.

In a subterranean metro station serving as a bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, two flamboyant puppeteers act out a tabletop fairytale for a gaggle of spellbound children.

Mohammad Sirajuddin's cramped studio is typical of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India's dwindling community of artisans painstakingly working by hand to produce silk saris, uniquely cherished among their wearers as the epitome of traditional Indian sartorial style.

An exhibition of masterpieces owned by a Russian art collector has attracted a near-record number of visitors in Paris, but the war in Ukraine may make it the last of its kind for a while.

Remarkable for its resemblance to the human voice, the classical instrument sarangi is fading from Pakistan's music scene –- except for a few players dedicated to preserving its place.

Two pictures from a hit Paris art exhibition of masterpieces from a Russian collection rarely seen abroad are to remain in France in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the French government said Saturday.

Two of Charles Darwin's notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous Tree of Life sketch have been returned anonymously after going missing for 21 years, Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday.

Twenty artists held an art exhibition to help two of Indonesia’s biggest literary figures who are currently suffering from illnesses.

In Central Africa, indigenous people gain access to health but deforestation threatens their traditions.

A group of Taiwanese puppeteers are looking to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to help bring their traditional art form into the modern era and keep it relevant for a new audience.

Nearly 25 years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made are taking his Afrobeat sound to the United States.

Uncompromising, sacrilegious, and intense – Kadapat is one of the best hidden talents in Bali’s promising music scene.

Koons, one of the most celebrated and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as "Ballon Dog" and "Rabbit," and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.

The Palace of Versailles is reopening the site of an often-overlooked part of its history on Friday with a fully restored Jeu de Paume Room that hosted the founding of French democracy.