WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, ...

Painting can seem like such a loaded endeavor. So it's nice to sit down with the more intimate immediacy of drawing -- its focus on line and mark-making and casualness of materials -- as an antidote ...

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