
Romanian artist takes his art on the street
Romanian artist Vasile Muresan, known as Murivale, thinks art belongs on the street. The white-bearded painter can often be seen sitting on the ...

Vatican re-enters art world with Venice Biennale
The Vatican is getting back into its centuries-old tradition of arts patronage with its first-ever exhibit at the Venice Biennale, commissioning a ...

Italy's ex-premier Giulio Andreotti dies at 94
Giulio Andreotti personified the nation he helped shape, the good and the bad. One of Italy's most important postwar figures, he helped draft the ...

Van Gogh Museum reopens with display on his craft
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation, kicking off with "Van Gogh At Work," an exhibition that shows the ...
4 artists up for UK's contentious Turner Prize
British art's prestigious Turner Prize embraced the playful and the satirical Thursday, announcing a list of four finalists including a cartoonist ...

Paris exhibit asks: Was there an Italian Monet?
Years before Impressionism — the influential Paris-based art movement — began, a similar style of painting capturing colorful impressions of light may ...

Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot
The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the ...

Riches of Dutch History Return to Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands, is finally set to reopen to the public, with Rembrandt van Rijn's masterpiece "The Night ...

American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII
Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands.

Painting identified as Rembrandt self-portrait
A painting donated to Britain's National Trust by the estate of a wealthy supporter has been identified as a Rembrandt self-portrait worth 20 million ...
Germany arrests new suspect in Dutch art heist
German prosecutors said Thursday they arrested a man after he allegedly tried to sell seven paintings taken in a Netherlands heist, including a ...

Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...

Washington museum shows rare portrait of queen
For decades, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I hung in a small garden gift shop on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Legend had it that the piece was rare ...
Correction: Stolen Dali story
In a story Feb. 26 about the theft of a Salvador Dali painting, The Associated Press erroneously reported the nature of Phivos ...
Greek man charged in NY Dali theft pleads guilty
A Greek man has admitted to stealing a Salvador Dali painting from a New York City gallery, only to return it in the mail. Phivos Istavrioglou pleaded ...
Greek man accused of stealing Dali work in NYC
A Greek man proved inept at the art of thievery by swiping a Salvador Dali painting from a New York City gallery as security cameras rolled and, in ...
Correction: France-Holocaust Theft story
In a Feb. 14 story about France giving back seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II, The Associated Press erroneously ...

Dali portrait on offer in surrealist auction
Salvador Dali's portrait of a New York style icon and Joan Miro's homage to his Catalan roots are going on sale at a London auction of surrealist ...

Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...
Interpol: We'll recover art stolen in Dutch heist
The head of Interpol says he believes police will retrieve valuable paintings that were stolen from a museum in the Netherlands last year, including ...

Dutch art heist detectives heading to Romania
Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in ...

London exhibit features dozens of Manet portraits
A new exhibition is bringing the works of French Impressionist master Edouard Manet to London — although snow is delaying one painting's arrival.
Turkish painter Burhan Dogancay dead at 83
Turkish painter Burhan Dogancay, whose work has been exhibited in some 70 museums worldwide, including New York's Metropolitan Art Museum and the ...