Within these circles, Minos judges the damned while Charon ferries souls across the river of Acheron. Pluto, no longer merely the Greek ... This shaped sermons, paintings, and imaginations ever since.

TUCSON, Ariz. — How did Pluto end up with its largest moon, Charon? Like many entanglements, it started with a kiss. New research from the University of Arizona details a “kiss and capture ...

Deep shades of blue and green are shown in artist Dayton Claudio’s work, his favorite colors, which is currently featured ...

Pluto and Charon’s relationship has long puzzled scientists. Unlike typical planet-moon systems, Pluto and Charon revolve around a shared point in space, orbiting each other in a delicate ...

At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” ...

Leonard Lauder, the legendary collector and philanthropist, shaped museums from the Met to the Whitney—and beyond.

A painting doesn’t object when we keep on looking. The models – bohemians paid to pose – knew the deal they made was to be the object of the gaze, of desire, to be the object of blatant, deliberate ...

The missing paintings vanished from a Taos art museum 40 years ago. It turns out those pieces were in the same New Mexico home where another valuable stolen painting was found years ago.

While in Milan, Leonardo was much involved with music, which he regarded as the second highest art after painting. He designed theatrical settings and costumes for great musical events in the city ...

A man hosted a mock art show at a gallery in Utah, where he unveiled an oil painting that left his family stunned Courtesy of Gracie Songer Matthew Covey wanted his girlfriend, Gracie Songer ...

Indeed, slowly but surely over recent decades, realist art has bounced back into the mainstream. This resurgence follows a long period in which paintings and sculptures with identifiable subject ...