Underwater archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat, which appears in art and writing but has never ...

Simon de Pury reflects on a no-photo encounter at the Prado and asks whether photography deepens or diminishes our experience ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

Nnena Kalu has clinched the Turner Prize, the U.K.'s top award for contemporary art, in a landmark moment for learning ...

Six months ago, Stuart Semple invited the public to vote in his Color of the Year poll. The people didn't choose Cloud Dancer ...

France has returned a dinosaur skeleton, confiscated after it was looted from the Gobi desert in 2015, to Mongolia on Monday.

The Palace of Versailles will investigate the origins of a Jacques-Louis David sketchbook that was found to have been looted ...

In his latest column, Kenny Schachter identifies buyers from recent (and not so recent) marquee auctions in New York.

The market for Frank Frazetta paintings has exploded over the past few years. What does it mean for the fortunes of fantasy ...

As part of a Hong Kong lawsuit for return of 91 works worth $100 million, Yves Bouvier is demanding financial records from NY institutions.

The race to build cultural institutions in Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia has created a lucrative niche for foreign ...

A rare version of Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s "Census at Bethlehem" sold for $6.9 million at Sotheby’s, boosting a $40.5 ...