A partially-sighted Royal Academy artist has created the first of more than 50 elephant sculptures for a spring arts trail on ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

In 1958, the clubby world of London art dealers got a jolt as Sotheby’s changed the way the auction business was done.

The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nie Norte Dowuona," was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...

The painting’s disappearance from its UK estate wasn’t noticed until six years later when a duchess saw it on display at a Harvard museum, new research shows.

Using archives, letters, and auction records, an art historian has uncovered who stole a Van Dyck from an English country ...

The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings ...

Over the past 50 years, is there anyone who’s written with more breadth, cogency and conviviality about the intersection of ...

The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...

Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...

Long thought to be a family heirloom, the artwork was actually gifted to the British prime minister in 1942 during the ...