But less has been said, so far as I know, about old age art criticism, which also can be distinctive. A young writer enters the art world, meets some artists and writes about them. Then if some ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

(Thomas COEX /AFP via Getty Images) Richard Lacayo, a former art and architecture critic for Time, is author of “Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph.” David ...

Yeats' older years as a writer, and those of many other creative artists, are the subjects of Nicholas Delbanco's latest book, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. Delbanco examines artists who either ...

A study published today in Nature suggests that paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves range from 17,400 to 39,900 years old, close to the age of similar artwork found on the walls of caves in ...

Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...

In Indonesia, scientists have uncovered new evidence over 30,000 years old that reveal early ... have since been compared in both age and content to similar paintings found in caves in France ...

A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also makes it ...

In old French the word we have as “thresh ... Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and ...

His paintings were rejected by the Salon de Paris ... They walk through life like a curious person browsing through a bookstore. In old age, the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote, “The amateur ...

The latest radiocarbon dates for Lascaux indicate that the paintings are 18,600 to 18,900 years old. Image Credit ... to the survival of the Ice Age hunter-gatherers who created the art, according ...