The paintings range in size and price from $300 to $700, depending on the use of color. Black-and-white portraits are the most popular because they feel more "somber and memorial," Brown said.

An agnostic, Gilbert believed that painting with human remains would not be a big deal to others. It didn't take long to find out he was wrong. The first box he was given contained the ashes of a ...

Wayne Gilbert being interviewed in the documentary about his work, “Ash: The Art of Wayne Gilbert,” an in-depth look at the Houston-based artist whose work is created with cremated human remains.

Wayne Gilbert uses the cremated remains of Americans uncollected, for infinite reasons, at funeral establishments mixed with a clear gel medium to create works of art.

He’s probably not urning a lot of fans. Houston-based artist Wayne Gilbert might be ashing for trouble as he’s been using abandoned cremated human remains to make his works of art. &#82… ...

New York prosecutors returned two pieces of art they say were stolen by Nazis from a Jewish performer murdered in the Holocaust, while a third remains in the Art Institute of Chicago where ...

Eternal Ware, based out of their home in Sarasota, creates pottery out of cremated human remains. “People have a hard time knowing what to do with ashes,” says Carole.

We ask The Art Newspaper's art market editor about the mood in Basel, discuss the Dutch museum tackling the difficult topic of human remains, and speak to Jo Applin, the co-curator of the ...

New York's American Museum of Natural History plans to improve its stewardship of thousands of human remains in its collection, which includes the bones of Native Americans and enslaved Black people.

After an eight-year investigation by the FBI, human remains that were trafficked to New York as art have finally been repatriated on the Pacific island of Vanuatu. The Vanuatu Cultural Center, the ...