Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and “Laocoön and His Sons” — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of ...

Greeks and Romans often painted their marble sculptures to be wildly coloured — polychromatic. But by the time they were unearthed, the colour was gone — stripped by age, exposure and burial. This ...

A new exhibition at the Met features brightly hued reconstructions of ancient Greco-Roman artworks Art Meets Science Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Reconstruction of marble ...

Can seeing white-marble sculpture really “influence white supremacist ideas”? According to an essay penned by a University of Iowa professor, seeing white-marble sculpture “continues to influence ...

Imagine the fleshy, muscular bodies — the voluminous drapery of classical sculpture — not as stark white marble but with pink and olive skin… in red gowns with black and yellow hair and vivid red lips ...

Sanford Biggers is taking over New York’s Rockefeller Center this spring with a campus-wide art installation headlined by Oracle, a monumental bronze sculpture that—standing 25 feet tall and weighing ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But recent exhibitions have shed new light on the ...

Is there an objective biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? New research uses fMRI scans to study the neural activity in subjects with ...

If you were to survey the exhibition history of major U.S. museums and art venues over the last two decades, the trends would be heavily weighted toward modernist and contemporary art. This is what ...

I recently went to something called an "alumni weekend" at the university I attended as an undergrad in England. This particular event offered the opportunity to go back and listen to a range of ...