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Poland probes artist's claim he used Holocaust ash
Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist's claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act that could carry ...
Matisse painting stolen in 1987 recovered in UK
A Henri Matisse painting stolen in 1987 from a Swedish museum by a thief wielding a sledgehammer has been recovered, an art specialist and a dealer ...
Spanish botched fresco artist sells work on eBay
A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched ...
Queen Elizabeth II gets art trove as jubilee gift
What do you get the woman who has everything? Britain's Royal Academy of Arts has presented Queen Elizabeth II with works by some of the country's ...
Man jailed for 2 years for defacing Rothko work
A Polish man who defaced a Mark Rothko painting in London's Tate Modern gallery with black ink to promote an obscure artistic creed was sentenced ...
Italy brings Michelangelo's 'David-Apollo' to US
Michelangelo's "David-Apollo" will be showcased publicly beginning Thursday at the National Gallery of Art to open a yearlong celebration of Italian ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller
With the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed for renovations until April, the world's second-largest collection of the tortured Dutch master's work ...
Police save ancient Egyptian sculpture in Italy
An Egyptian granite sculpture of a sphinx that risked ending up on the black market for antiquities is destined instead for a Rome museum. Italian Tax ...
Banned 50 years ago, exhibition reopens in Moscow
Better known in the West for promising to "bury" the capitalist world, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev is also remembered by Russians for banning works ...
Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows
The Louvre has embarked on an ambitious quest — opening a €150 million ($196 million) extension in an abandoned coal mining town in northern France ...
Elizabeth Price wins UK's Turner Prize for arts
Video artist Elizabeth Price, who uses collage and clutter to explore people's relationship to consumer culture, was named the winner of British art's ...
Dallas museum returns stolen mosaic to Turkey
The Dallas Museum of Art has returned an ancient mosaic to Turkish officials after discovering it was stolen. The mosaic was returned to Turkish ...
Van Gogh, John Lennon letters coming to US auction
Rare letters written by Vincent van Gogh, John Lennon and other iconic figures are being offered at an upcoming auction of more than 300 historical ...