A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.

An ochre hand stencil found in the jungles of Indonesia is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers believe, a ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...