Few children in the past four decades have missed out on rides aboard the Magic School Bus, a co-creation of Mr. Degen and ...

Image Courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Photo ... to believe that the two artists set their easels in the same city. Turner's 1830-35 painting The Thames Above Waterloo Bridge, which glimpses ...

Well-man skeleton (Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet) The elusive medieval man’s bones were first found in the well at Sverresborg Castle, but researchers lacked the tools at the time to do much ...

Maurizio Cattelan's provocative art piece 'Comedian', a banana duct-taped to a wall, will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City. The buyer receives a certificate of authenticity and ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...

Participants discussed ways in which Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown together, would best exemplify this trend.

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

This dazzling new show does away with stereotypes of pre-Renaissance women and shows off the full glorious spread of medieval life In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...