In Raja Ravi Varma’s iconic painting, Yashoda and Krishna, a quiet, intimate moment unfolds: an infant Krishna, rendered in luminous soft tones, leans into his mother Yashoda — a tender scene ...

A 19th Century painting by iconic artist Raja Ravi Varma has become the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold, setting a new auction record. The painting, Yashoda and Krishna, was sold for 1.67bn ...

Marking the latest chapter of India’s art market ascension, the auction record for a South Asian painting has been broken just one year since it was last set. Yashoda and Krishna is also the ...

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International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, making it the oldest known cave artwork ever discovered, per a study published Wednesday ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, ...

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...

What are acrylics made of? Acrylic nails are created from a man-made chemical called PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate). PMMA is made from methyl methacrylate (MMA). In general, PMMA itself is usually ...

Artificial intelligence has to date been enlisted as a bogeyman in cultural circles: Software will take the jobs of writers and translators, and AI-generated images ring the death toll for ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A social media clip of a 2014 video of actor Bill Murray talking about a painting that he said saved his life recently got the attention of CBS News Chicago. "I think it's called 'The ...