It is easy to appreciate the paintings of Markus Puskar, with their swirling colors and shapes, their out-of-this world ...

The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best.

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...

With Mahakhumbh as theme, Kerala’s Garudan Parava, Assam’s Bhaona, nautanki, Pai-Danda and other folk art to be highlight this year at Deshaj event in Lucknow. The fourth edition of annual ...

The end of former president Bashar al-Assad's regime is starting to sink in for Syrians, who are as excited as they are uncertain about what comes next for their country. Redmond Shannon looks at the ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Located 2.5 miles south of the Santa Fe Plaza on Museum Hill, the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts ...

Artist’s portraits of people like Harriet Tubman and Mahatma Gandhi are a tribute to the many figures who battled ...

New boxed set collection makes a rare set of live recordings by influential guitarist Robbie Basho available for the first ...

"Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the ...

In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes. And he was absolutely not alone. For around a century, this ...