This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

0:46 Elephant paints with trunk at Hungarian travelling circus BUDAPEST – Paintings created by an Indian elephant who ... that are thought to be forced to paint, Sandra does it by herself ...

LOS ANGELES – A city agency that allowed a spray-painted elephant to appear at an art exhibit is now saying ... This isn’t a religious ceremony in India.” Tai’s owner denied that the ...

The Lodhi Art District is a lively, colorful destination where 25 street artists, both Indian and international ... Lane to ...

Ed Boks, head of Animal Services in Los Angeles, said: "I think it sends a very wrong message that abusing animals is not only OK, it's an art form ... that the 38-year-old Indian elephant had ...

HYDERABAD : City-based artist Bolgum Nagesh Goud is organising ‘Gaja’, an art exhibition of three-dimensional painted elephants created in fiber-glass medium by renowned artists.

An elephant that was elaborately spray-painted for a California art exhibit, which caused an uproar among animal activists, was washed by order of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services.

A BBC News article described an exhibition of such paintings at an Edinburgh gallery in 1996: Pictures which were painted by elephants have gone on display at an Edinburgh gallery. Art graduate ...