Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 (detail) from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size) by ...

The annual Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis will explore how art made during the Enlightenment doesn’t always fit neatly into commonly held ideas about the period. Titled “Art and the ...

This subtly radical artist put rarely seen smiles on the faces of his princesses and aristocrats, creating a lace-framed snapshot of the Enlightenment era Some artists express their age so perfectly ...

Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in Europe ...

There's something extra special about an artist who can look at something old and discarded and transform it into a work of art. Even better when that art becomes something functional too. Shoichi ...

A group of singers have gathered at the foot of a shiny, colossal robot in a light-filled art gallery. A ukulele player strikes up a folksy tune, and one of them starts to sing sweetly about the ...

Khusro Subzwari on Rumi Mevlana’s poetry and finding inspiration in mystic dancers. Based on the mystic dances of dervishes, Pakistani artist Khusro Subzwari’s ‘Flight to Enlightenment’ exhibition ...