A new blend of imaging technologies has helped archaeologists identify the chemical makeup of an excavated painting, revealing elements of everyday life in second century Egypt. Researchers from UCLA ...

In an earlier article, I explored the creation of a catalogue raisonné, and how it is central to the world of art authentication. Central yes, always sufficient?- not so much. Sometimes science has ...

Rock art of human figures created over thousands of years in Australia's Arnhem Land has been put through a transformative machine learning study to analyse style changes over the years. The study has ...

How much top-flight art can the market absorb? That was the question hovering over the auction sector at the beginning of 2022, when Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips were preparing to offer more ...