Don’t: You may have heard that it’s offensive to paint your face as a sugar skull. There’s a reason for that. Sugar skulls are traditionally used as offerings to loved ones who have passed away.

A turquoise-blue painting topped by colorful slashes and a menacing black skull by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s New York—setting a new record high for any U.S ...

Dia De Los Muertos will come to life on canvas at Painting Paradise, but painting a sugar skull is just one chilling creation you can make at Marionette Taboniar’s Halloween open art studio meet-up.

As The New York Times reports, a 1982 work by Basquiat—a scrawling, large-scale painting of a skull—fetched nearly $111 million at a contemporary art auction last night, cementing its creator ...

He surveyed his skull painting. Peter Fisher for The New York Times “It’s kind of recreating what I have it all strewn about,” he said, arranging his paint tubes.

The researchers took samples of red paint from 38 different artifacts and bones, 25 of which were human skulls. Using three scientific techniques — X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray fluorescence ...