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Original Star Wars Costume Sketches Are Going Up for Auction

If you've got an extra $100,000 lying around, you could get your hands on a piece of Hollywood history.

A visitor photographs 'Mural' by Jackson Pollock.

How to Spot a Fake Painting, According to Forgery Experts

Brush up on these tips before your next museum outing.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons // Public domain

Celebrating Amanda Crowe, Famed Native American Woodcarver

Google designed a Doodle in her honor for Native American Heritage Month.

35 Happy Little Facts About Bob Ross

Whether or not you’re artistically inclined, there’s a good chance that you—like millions of other people around the world—have been captivated by Bob Ross’s instructional landscape paintings and soothing voice.

Pablo Picasso in front of one of his paintings.

8 Things To Know About Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso completed his first painting at age 9. Find out even more about one of the world's most important artists.

Art Curator Sarah Forgey shows Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal four watercolors by Adolf Hitler at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

How Hitler's Watercolor Paintings Ended Up at a Military Base in Virginia

Nearly 600 works of Nazi propaganda are tucked away under lock and key at Fort Belvoir.

Young John the Baptist, Leonardo da Vinci (1513-16, Louvre, Paris).

Could Leonardo da Vinci's Artistic Genius Be Due to an Eye Condition?

The brilliant painter and inventor may have been cross-eyed.

John Goodman, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Bob Balaban, and Bill Murray in 'The Monuments Men' (2014)

Britain Is Forming a Modern Version of the 'Monuments Men'—and It's Recruiting

This is your chance to be the next George Clooney—or at least the next Lieutenant Frank Stokes.

15 Secrets of Courtroom Sketch Artists

News outlets aren't their only customers. Sometimes attorneys buy their work, too.

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger

Tudors to Windsors: Houston's Museum of Fine Arts Celebrates 500 Years of Royal Portraits

Some of the portraits have never been seen outside of England.

Boris Karloff's The Mummy Movie Poster Expected to Sell for More Than $1 Million

Bidding ends, fittingly, on Halloween.

David Shrigley's Inflatable 'Swan-Things' Come to Life in 12-Minute Cycles

You'll need to be patient if you want to witness the full effect.

Atelier des Lumières © Culturespaces/Eric Spiller

Gustav Klimt's Masterpieces Get a 21st-Century Makeover at Paris's First Digital Fine Arts Museum

The museum is housed in a gargantuan former foundry.

Anna Atkins (1799–1871), Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state & in fruit, from PartXI of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, 1849-1850, cyanotype

How 19th-Century Photographer Anna Atkins Changed the Way We Look at Science

Her identity was a mystery for decades.

JK Rowling's Newest Obsession? A Teenager's 350-Year-Old Math Notebook

Richard Beale's sketch of a chicken wearing trousers has gone viral.

A New London Art Installation Is Designed to Make You Cry

The artist calls it "forced empathy."

David Hockney Designed Westminster Abbey's Newest Stained Glass Window—on an iPad

The reviews have been mixed.

9 Magical Images From Disneyland History

Walt Disney's Disneyland provides an inside look at how the iconic theme park came to be.

10 Happy Little Facts About The Joy of Painting

Everything you ever wanted to know about that smooth jazz intro. The calm, welcoming voice. The larger-than-life hair. And the constant assurance that you can create the same “happy little trees.”