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Russian artist Max Goshko-Dankov on his talent for combining incompatible colors, the role of art in modern society and how adult coloring helps you get in touch with yourself.

Japanese art has a quality all its own. The ancient and the avant-garde merge. Prehistoric figurines seem 10,000 years deep rather than 10,000 years old. And modern art takes us back even as it propels us forward. Manga, for instance, predates its name by ...

Researchers found they could predict success decades in advance from the names of the first five galleries where an artist exhibits.

A painting by British artist David Hockney fetched $90.3 million at Christie's on Thursday night, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction. Among his famous "pool paintings," "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" is considered one ...

The labor ministry said Sunday it had picked out 150 contemporary master craftspeople, praising them as leaders in their respective professions with outstanding skills. The contemporary masters award ceremony was held in Tokyo on Monday. The list of masters included Masahiro Koizumi, 73, from Kyoto Prefecture, ...

Hong Kong organizers of an exhibition by a dissident Chinese-Australian cartoonist, a persistent thorn in the side of leaders in Beijing, cancelled the event in the Chinese-ruled city on Friday given what they said were threats by China. The exhibition by Badiucao was to have ...

Banksy posted a video to his website Tuesday implying that the partial shredding of his "Girl With Balloon" at a London auction was supposed to have been complete. The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing ...

It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past. For U.S. President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House ...

His shredding trick demonstrates the street artist's talent for exploring the ways in which people value art.

Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers Friday, moments after being sold for £1.04 million ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the ...

Sandwiched between old residential apartments in the capital's central Minato Ward is the Arimaston Building, an eccentric collage of individually patterned concrete slabs piled upon each other as if by happenstance. It's the work of Keisuke Oka, who has been building the unfinished structure mostly ...