Jan van Kessel the Elder. Noah’s Family Assembling Animals Before the Ark, c. 1660 oil on panel. Photograph courtesy of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland The National Gallery of Art and the ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 14 (UPI) --A Massachusetts zoo is harnessing the creative power of its animals by auctioning off original pieces of art that they produced. Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford ...

After a few days on display in a downtown warehouse, an elaborately painted live elephant was washed down Sunday by order of the city’s Department of Animal Services. Tai, a 38-year-old female Indian ...

Last weekend there was uproar on social media after certain politicians were spotted with painted animals. The said sheep which was painted in a certain party’s colours, attracted mixed reactions, ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus?

Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one ...

Facebook users were upset on Monday to see a post on a page for the Sao Paulo, Brazil-based J Serafim Show, detailing an event where children were encouraged to use a white horse as a canvas for ...

For a lot of us, “chicken” is a piece of white meat that’s better for you than a piece of red meat. Because really, how often do we see a chicken if it’s not on our plates? But there was a time when ...