British artist Damien Hirst has donated four of his works to the Tate collection, including a replica of his prize-winning installation of bisected cows in formaldehyde, the museum said Friday. Complete Story...
The two Picasso paintings have been in prominent New York museum collections for decades. But now the institutions are asking a court to declare them the lawful owners amid a Jewish scholar's claims that the works were the rightful property of a relative persecuted in Nazi Germany.
Artist Mark Wallinger won Britain's prestigious Turner Prize Monday for a fiercely anti-war exhibit based on a lone protester's six-year vigil outside British parliament.
A Norman Rockwell painting of Santa Claus perched on a stepladder sold for $2.17 million at auction.
A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record $18.5 million at auction Wednesday.
A photographic exhibit captures one of the largest mass movements of people in recent history in images ranging from women carrying sacks of grain in Africa to men pushing shopping carts in California.
Randolph College simply wanted to sell four highlights from its renowned American art collection to boost its endowment and protect its accreditation. Instead, it has fallen into a bitter legal battle with art lovers who consider the sale an unethical breach of public trust.
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday halted financially ailing Randolph College's plans to sell four paintings at auction this month, including a work by early 20th century master George Bellows.
A sculpture of a stainless steel heart hanging from a golden bow sold Wednesday for $23.6 million, becoming the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said.
A new office within Germany's Institute for Museum Research is opening in January to help identify and research art stolen by the Nazis, Germany's culture minister said Wednesday.
It took a painting called "An Honest Living" to catch a pair of crooks, police said. The oil, which depicts a blues band, was one of 250 works that burglars stole from the Laguna Beach home of artist John Cosby in April.
They are photos Ansel Adams never intended anyone to see — tiny proofs taken with a handheld camera of a landscape that lacks the grandeur captured in his portraits of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park.
One of Vincent van Gogh's last landscapes, considered a highlight among this year's fall art offerings, has failed to sell at auction.
Vincent van Gogh owes much of his fame to his image as a troubled genius, but a little-known work on display for the first time this fall at the Van Gogh Museum shows the careful forethought that went into many of the artist's compositions.
A decades-old tattered brown leather album with photographs of 18th century paintings offers a rare glimpse into Adolf Hitler's massive looting of artwork during World War II.
Some 140 drawings by the late Mexican folk artist Martin Ramirez, once destined for the trash, survived for more than two decades in a California garage and will be shown next year at the American Folk Art Museum.
The late supermarket tycoon Simon Sainsbury left 18 paintings worth as much as $200 million to the Tate Britain and the National Gallery in a bequest that the two galleries described as the most significant in memory.
The Normandy museum only wanted to do what was right: It offered to return a preserved, tattooed Maori head to New Zealand, an attempt to restore dignity to human remains that were long put on display as an exotic curiosity.
Ten original works by English graffiti artist Banksy, including an image of Lenin on roller skates and an elephant carrying a large bomb, are predicted to fetch up to $600,000 Wednesday at an auction.
Say Cheese! There's a chance your picture may be hanging in the National Gallery of Art.
As a child, Ruth DeYoung Kohler loved taking family road trips across Wisconsin, her parents stopping wherever the mood struck.
A judge dismissed a challenge to the Norton Simon Museum of Art's ownership of two prized 16th century paintings that had been seized by the Nazis.
A Francis Bacon painting the artist donated to an art college in lieu of rent decades ago has sold for $16.4 million at an auction where solid but unspectacular results suggest global financial turmoil may be unsettling the art market.
Roger Brown, who blended folk art, comics, advertising and surrealism into a distinctive style as part of the Chicago imagist movement, is being presented through a different lens: his Southern roots.
One ceramic bowl contained miniature soldiers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, angels' wings sprouting from their backs. Flowers and butterflies, rather than bullets, barreled from their rifles.