Three views of the Head of a ruler, Mesopotamia, Iraq, ca. 2300–2000 BCE. Credit: Anna-Marie Kellen / The Metropolitan Museum of Art A recent study of an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture using ...

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

Sometimes famous works of art can continue to surprise. Case in point: A wax sculpture crafted by Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) may have just revealed a thumbprint ...

As the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death approaches, artists in Hong Kong have found a decidedly predigital way to mourn the late Apple sage. They’ve created an incredibly lifelike wax figure ...

One thing up front: Nobody, no matter how talented an artist they may be, can make a celebrity wax sculpture that isn’t at least a little bit upsetting. Humans are made of flesh and blood and seeing ...