Arlene Shechet’s elegant 12-foot abstract sculpture evokes the green of spring as it stands on the grounds of the Smithsonian ...

The very modern human traits of complex and abstract thinking may have evolved in Africa 77,000 years ago--almost twice as early as previously believed--according to a team of anthropologists who ...

Six-hundred-year-old stone carvings have been revealed on a beach on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The petroglyphs were found just outside Waianae and represent people and abstract symbols carved into ...

From medieval stone-carved Síle na Gigs depicting naked women to decorated Celtic High Crosses, Galway's Iron Age Turoe Stone and the abstract carvings of circles, spirals and lozenges at the ...

Created in 1943, abstract wooden carving marked a breakthrough in ‘genius’ British artist’s career A rare wooden carving by the renowned abstract sculptor Barbara Hepworth, regarded as one of the most ...

The discovery of "art" carved by Neanderthals – close, extinct relatives of our own species Homo sapiens – in a cave on Gibraltar is being hailed as proof that these long-derided early human were just ...