Most ancient tales, as we know, were delegated to the people who came after in the form of cave paintings and rock art. Experts spotted one such artwork in the Horned Serpent panel of the La Belle ...

San paleontologists The southern African Karoo area, including parts of the Free State Province, is packed with millions of fossils. Most of them belong to dicynodonts.

“Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940″ continues through July 28 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought ...

A cave in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, contains 895 painted designs (some shown). Researchers have dated three examples of this cave art to between around 8,200 and 5,100 years ago.

A look at consequences of rising sea levels as 56% of Americans call climate change "urgent" To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found ...

The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow. David Hammons. African-American Flag, 1990. Collection of Larry and Marilyn Fields, gift from David Hammons. Awol Erizku.

During the early 1900s, the aesthetics of traditional African sculpture became a powerful influence among European artists who formed an avant-garde in the development of modern art.

The auction will showcase a range of important African artists spanning the last 100 years. It is Sotheby’s first in-person African Art auction in three years due to pandemic limitations.

Mr. Shonibare said his fascination with this part of art history “evolved from looking closely at Picasso’s collection of African art,” and later that of others, including André Derain ...