Robert Davidson first learned to carve when he was 13, instructed in the painstaking art by his father and uncle.

No other country is as tolerant as India, says Art of Living founder and spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Maqbool Fida Husain surrendered his Indian passport to the country's mission in Doha on Monday.

The "Parade Helmet of Charles V" by Filippo Negroli is displayed during the media presentation of the exhibit "The Art of Power.

Delaroche's Execution of Lady Jane Grey: "history with too much pathos and drama". Don't look! It is a sight too cruel to take: the teenage queen, blindfold, in her petticoat, bravely groping for the block on which to lay her young neck.

Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Monday expressed surprise over the 'hue and cry' over painter M.F. Husain's move to give up Indian citizenship and chided him for painting Indian gods in the nude.

University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue.

"Every man a Rembrandt!" This was the claim made on the paint kit box tops produced by Craft Master since 1951 when Max S. Klein, the owner of Palmer Paint Company, and Dan Robbins, a commercial artist, introduced the first "paint-by-number" kit to the world.

In a remarkable union of science and art, landscape painter Diane Burko shows how the planet's glaciers have changed form over the last century in her latest exhibit "Politics of Snow." To tell the story, Burko tracked down glaciologists from the US Geological Survey's National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and ...

Maybe one day elephants will walk down East Mason Street. But until then, families got to ride on them at the Beja Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena.

A rendering of Jesus Christ's suffering on the cross is on rare display at the National Gallery of Art in its first exhibit of painting and sculpture from the Roman Catholic Church.

Romea s Palazzo di Venezia is playing host to an exhibition of paintings and calligraphy by Iranian artists under the title a oeManifestation of Feelinga .

Sunday night are the Oscars. Will it be Avatar or The Hurt Locker? Or will Inglourious Basterds sneak in and take the gold statuette? EDGE has some predictions.

YOU MAY KNOW Jane Seymour for her roles as a Bond girl in " Live and Let Die " and a Wild West healer in " Dr.

Thank you. Picture perfect: Archibald 2010 Entries for Archibald 2010 have started arriving at the Art Gallery of NSW, all hoping to be the winner of the $50,000 prize.

If any old picture can be worth a thousand words then a specially created work of art should speak volumes.

Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:54 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:54 a.m. Edvard Munch plumbed the depths of humanity's anguish with "The Scream," but that iconic painting is but a moment in the life of the Norwegian artist.

The sixth annual exhibit hosted by Edinboro's Drawing and Painting Club, Feb. 24 in Bates Gallery, happened alongside Art Night, an opportunity for high school juniors and seniors to tour the campus' studios.

An image of a coiled snake has begun to appear in a 16th century painting of Queen Elizabeth I, says the National Portrait Gallery .

The raw emotion felt by so many after the discovery of a body in the Chelsea King disappearance surfaced when someone painted a threat on the home of the suspect's family, but it boiled over when neighbors confronted two men who painted over the message.

Landscape artist Charles Brandenburg will demonstrate his plein air techniques for painting the outdoors from "mental snapshots" he takes of scenes he wants to paint at the Hunterdon Watercolor Society meeting 7-9 p.m. Monday, March 1, at the Hunterdon County Library Complex, Building 1, Route 12, Raritan Township.