The birds are a migratory shorebird that were originally bred in western Siberia and migrated to the Mediterranean in winter.

A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works.

It urges UNESCO to protect Baalbek and other heritage sites by establishing "no-target zones" around them and deploying ...

Giovana Aviles, Phoenix Art Museum's curator of engagement, credits growing up undocumented as the reason she thrives when ...

The bugs at Tacoma’s Museum of Glass are invited guests. Plus, they’re made from glass. The life-size, anatomically correct works of art herald visitors to the Tacoma museum’s newest show, “Field ...

An 1867 Bible, three dresses and other artifacts at the Witte Museum once belonged to Sarah Tate, who was enslaved at age 41 and living east of San Antonio when news of emancipation reached Texas.  In ...

While Solid Gold explores the aesthetics of decorative objects and art made of gold, it also delves into the history of the ...

Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest divisions that ...

The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what might happen to the Parthenon Marbles ...

More remains from a child killed in the infamous 1985 MOVE bombing were recovered this week at the Penn Museum, ...

Amid the ongoing calamity of war in Lebanon, the country’s cultural scene is determined to work against the odds to keep its ...

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through ...