Our Art Deco Centenary series will delve into the style throughout March but to help start us off, this five-minute guide covers all the basics. Art deco refers to a design style that was ...

During its six months, the exhibition attracted around 16 million visitors and generated worldwide demand for Art Deco – an abbreviation of arts décoratifs, or decorative arts – which ...

Art historians have generally dismissed the possibility that there is any representational aspect to these works, but a new scientific study suggests that the artist, whether consciously or ...

This episode is a burst of unbridled beauty to nudge us out of the winter torpor and into the spring light of March. We’ll ...

Dezeen’s Art Deco Centenary series explores art deco architecture and design, 100 years on from the “arts décoratifs” exposition in Paris that later gave the style its name.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There are 12 animal symbols that represent the Chinese zodiac. The signs rotate every year--from year of the rooster to year of the dog, for example--and it's believed that ...

Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art. By Jason Farago and George Etheredge for The New York Times As a sprawling new exhibit opens in two museums in Amsterdam, the German artist ...

The cover art features a mouth stretched wide open ... The humble and ancient earthworm is as symbolically rich as the humus it helps produce; from Old Testament symbol of guilt, to early Celtic ...

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Art provides diversification in portfolios, exhibiting a low price correlation with stocks and bonds. As an investment, art can hedge against inflation, but expect bond-level returns. Investors ...