The Airavateshvara Temple, built during the 11th-12th century in Tamil Nadu, features an ancient optical illusion. The carvings depict an elephant and a bull sharing the same head. Observing which ...

A public sculpture by Bristol-based artist Dorcas Casey has been unveiled at the 207,000 sq ft Welcome Building. Welcome Building, delivered in a joint venture between EPISO 5, a fund managed by ...

The Unesco-listed Hahoe Folk Village in South Korea has been evacuated and a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple burned to the ... in South Korea," she tells The Art Newspaper.

It is another temple town in Thanjavur district and is about 40 km away from the main city. A visit to Kumbakonam would not be complete without seeing the Airavatesvara Temple, a stunning example ...

Stewards are to be stationed next to a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin to discourage people from touching it. Dublin City Council is running a pilot scheme for a week in May after complaints of ...

From a shipwreck that's become a 'haven for marine life' to a museum with 500 sculptures, discover the attractions that lie below the surface ...

The United States has firmly rejected a suggestion by French politician Raphael Glucksmann that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, dismissing his remarks as unwarranted and ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and ...

“For example, a cult statue of a god or goddess with such decoration placed in a temple, would have given the visitor to the temple the impression that the divinity was somehow present in the ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

Could she? French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, of the Socialists and Democrats group, has set tongues wagging by suggesting that the Statue of Liberty — unveiled in New York in 1886 as a gift from the ...