The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

Jo Underhill/Barbican via CNN Newsource Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita’s large-scale scrolls are a modern reimaging of traditional Balinese Kamasan paintings.

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.

Over two thousand years ago Mount Vesuvius destroyed everything in its path, including a town called Herculaneum. Miraculously papyrus scrolls in a library survived enough to be read by new A. I ...

By Tacita Quinn (CNN) — At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made hundreds of years ago. From afar, her ...

Split into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, it makes clever use of the art center’s Curve gallery — a 90-meter-long (295-foot) space where her epic painted scrolls stretch into the ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on traditional ...