Mohamed Ali wasn't just a genius boxer, but a king of communication

Degas’s The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer has a sad history behind it

Why do penises on classical statues seem so small? Art historians and anatomists have the answer.

420 is seemingly totally innocent number, and yet there's an entire global counterculture devoted to it

The image of San Sebastian, tied up and his chest riddled with arrows, has inspired generations of artists

Madeleines have become literary icons, all thanks to Proust

 What inspired the cityscape of one of the most famous cities to never exist?

The fear of being called a witch was the ultimate form of social control during the Renaissance period

Keith Haring's mural Once Upon a Time is a celebration of sex and life even as he himself was dying 

Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold tins of his own poop