A trove of historic documents that were stolen from the Netherlands’ National Archives in The Hague has been recovered by an art detective. The 25 items, which include documents listed on Unesco’s ...

Both the painter and the sitter of a portrait of a young woman of colour purchased at auction by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2020 have finally been identified after lots of digging, a little ...

Two Bauhaus buildings in the Unesco World Heritage site of The White City in Tel Aviv were damaged by Iranian missiles on Saturday (28 February). One woman died and more than two dozen people were ...

An ensemble of more than a dozen leafy bronze and coper mirrors by Claude Lalanne achieved $33.5m (with fees) at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday (22 April), more than doubling its high estimate of ...

There is so much more to colour than meets the eye. It is a subject that has occupied the minds of artists since the earliest cave painters chose to use red ochre instead of black charcoal. The ...

A data sculpture made by the media artist Refik Anadol in collaboration with the legendary footballer Lionel Messi has raised $1.87m for global educational charities at an online auction run by ...

Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and ...

Plus an early version of the Statue of Liberty derived from the original plaster model of the landmark and an intimate, moody ...

Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, ...

The country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently announced the discovery of large-scale platforms ...

New York gallery responds to client needs by offering a $10m-plus de Kooning painting in attention-grabbing move ...

While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing ...