A look at the blue period of Pablo Picasso via one of his masterpieces, 'The Old Guitarist', and the painting that lies beneath it was discovered recently.

For centuries, scholars and art historians have speculated about the existence of a fifth panel in Hexham Abbey's medieval ...

In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after contentious battle — the frescoes were thought to be destroyed. They have now been ...

How it went from a little idea in Will Coley’s head to where it wound up — the two desperately trying not to allow even their knees to touch now that no denim protects them — can help us understand ...

In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our ...

A nature mural in a Bloomington basement surrounded by piles of kids’ toys. A nature mural on a living room wall in a Brooklyn Park home populated with little cutouts of humans and canoes. A ...

The novelist Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”) touches on this painful phase in her third book for children, “The Boy Who Lost His Spark,” a lovely read-aloud for children ages 5-9.

But with no mummy left inside the identity of the fallen king remains a mystery. The 3,600-year-old tomb was found nearly 23ft underground in the Mount Anubis necropolis in Abydos. The long-lost ...

But it probably would have been lost to history without the survival ... This book is its own work of art. "The Pearl-Manuscript is just as extraordinary and unusual and unexpected as the poems ...

and Murder,” the first in her “Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries” series, from noon-1 p.m. May 5 at the Brainerd Public Library. In the book, Katie Wilk has lost everything, and is starting ...