Likely used for serving broth to a woman at her dressing table, this bowl is elaborately decorated with vignettes of fish intended to allude to its co...

Depicted in a posture associated with meditation, this figure's hair is partially shaved off, he has long earlobes, and he holds a rolled scroll in on...

Touching the edge of the perfectly balanced basket on her head, an alluring woman in the prime of her youth is depicted bringing offerings to the dece...

Featuring a miniature interpretation of an architectural ornament from ancient Rome, this Chinese porcelain ewer was destined to become a courtly obje...

This slit gong depicts the face and voice of one of the founding ancestors of the village where it was made. "The ancestors watch over human activitie...

Jacopo Bassano was eighty years old when he started this paining, and he died before it was completed. "I think his age liberated him and that he was ...

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews are regular features where we invite critics to review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the tr...

It's official, dear readers. The month of May has finally begun, ushering in a period of blossoming flowers, warm(ish) weather and the annual exodus o...

In this drawing, based on Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" fresco, Rembrandt first drew Christ as a much younger man. Later, he changed his mind, and...

Cylinder seals were carved in reverse to create a raised impression; their whole imagery was only revealed when rolled out onto a clay surface. The sc...

The two scenes on this ivory plaque are set in the days after Christ's Resurrection from the tomb during the period before the Ascension. "The power t...

Curator Alison Manges Nogueira admits that she has a clearer understanding of Bellini's Madonna and Child since becoming a mother herself. "I can see ...

On Monday Christopher Noey, General Manager of Media Production, Senior producer, discussed 82nd & Fifth during a Google Art Project Art Talk Hangout....

Don't you hate it when you just can't remember the last place you left your $1.3 million egg? A stolen egg encrusted with hundreds of jewels was recen...

Drop everything you're doing and hitch a ride to Midtown, because Tilda Swinton is laying her snow-white head down for a nap in New York's Museum of M...

Curator Dirk Breiding came across a surprising Hebrew inscription on this fifteenth-century German crossbow. Intrigued by its translation, he began to...

A controversial painting of South African president Jacob Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela depicted as Caucasian has been removed from an art ...

Roger Fenton has pushed the horizon line down to the bottom of this photograph, thus creating a "dreamlike sea of sky with waves of clouds going into ...

When this coronation image of Tutankhamun was made, the newly minted ruler was only six years old. "We see only the face of a sweet, innocent, young b...

Museums are increasingly trying to incorporate technology in their physical space in order to enhance visitors' experience. In this interview, Don Undeen, Manager of the Media Lab at The Metropolitan Museum of Art talks to us about: the goals and the challenges of using technology.

Even as a branding exercise, Kit Kat's art commission makes impressive eye candy. Illustrator Mike Watt melted down the last 50 white chocolate Kit...

Abstract painter Zao Wou-ki died yesterday at his home in Switzerland according to the Wall Street Journal. Zao Wou-Ki in front of Homage to Fra...