LONDON, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following their successful June auction, Apollo Art Auctions is proud to present a remarkable selection of ancient art. The upcoming sale, featuring ...

Highlighting the sale on the 26th of July is a remarkable turquoise mosaic jaguar mask with circular dark eyes and prominent fangs. This one-of-a-kind piece, Aztec/Mixtec in origin, has never appeared ...

Global Baroque surveys the triumphant internationalism of a new age of vast and rapid interchanges of art and culture, with Rome at its center.

Originally published as part of a 2024 feature, this piece revisits three local creators whose work draws on toys, '90s pop culture and cultural identity ahead of Comic-Con 2025.

MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours Removable transparent films apply digital restorations directly to damaged artwork.

As a student, Alex Kachkine can only afford damaged art in need of repair. Here’s how they turned their conservation work into a science.

"The Maskmaker," directed by John Barnes in 1975, features the eminent French mime Marcel Marceau in a thought-provoking pantomime from his repertoire. This film is part of a series showcasing ...

Drawing from his Yup'ik and Inupiaq heritage, Michael carves stories into his art pieces, hoping to take viewers on a journey of transformation some of my imagery that you'll see, I like to think ...

The Mystery Of The Aztec Mask: We Don't Know For Sure How It Got To Europe, But Evidence Points To Hernán Cortés.

The high priest, wearing a turquoise mask representing Xiuhtecuhtli, would then perform a Xiuhtlalpilli, or "new fire ceremony ", which involved starting a fire on the chest of a sacrificial victim.

They're like phrenology skulls or Aztec human sacrifice temples -- artifacts of an odd and discredited belief system.