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July 18, 2019
US lawmakers propose ban on export of tribes' sacred items
A group of U.S. lawmakers made another push Thursday to ban collectors and vendors from exporting Native American ceremonial ...
July 10, 2019
Egypt asks Interpol to help it retrieve King Tut statue
Egypt says it has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000-year-old sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun after ...
July 04, 2019
Christie's goes ahead with contested King Tut statue auction
Christie's has gone forward with the auction of a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun despite ...
July 04, 2019
Titanic survivor's light-up cane to be sold at auction
A Titanic survivor's walking stick, with an electric light she used to signal for help from a lifeboat, is one of thousands ...
July 02, 2019
Viking chess piece sells for more than $900,000 at auction
A 900-year-old Viking chess piece bought for a few dollars in the 1960s has sold at auction for 735,000 pounds ($927,000).
June 03, 2019
Missing Lewis Chessman found, could fetch $1M at auction
A chess piece purchased for a few pounds (dollars) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of ...
Craig Gilmore, David Crocker
May 05, 2019
Looted art, gay rights merge in recovery of Polish painting
A same-sex Los Angeles couple was dumbfounded when Homeland Security agents showed up at their home in 2016 with the news ...
April 30, 2019
US museum condemns use of its art by German far-right party
An American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century ...
April 25, 2019
UK blocks Sainsbury's merger with Walmart unit Asda
British regulators blocked Sainsbury's 7.3 billion-pound ($9.4 billion) purchase of Walmart's Asda unit on Thursday amid ...
April 08, 2019
London taxes older vehicles in bid to fight air pollution
In a bid to fight air pollution, London has introduced one of the world's toughest vehicle emissions standards, placing a tax ...
April 03, 2019
Gun possibly used by Van Gogh to kill himself up for auction
A Paris auction house says it's selling a revolver that was possibly used by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh to take his own ...
March 15, 2019
Recovered de Kooning painting back in the spotlight
More than 30 years after it was brazenly stolen from an Arizona museum, a painting by Willem de Kooning reportedly worth $100 ...
March 11, 2019
Valtteri Bottas: "I'm going to beat everyone this year"
Last season's Formula One campaign was so demoralizing for Valtteri Bottas that he got drunk to forget all about it.
February 28, 2019
Court rejects injunction against German museum over painting
A German court has rejected a bid by the heirs of a Jewish French art collector to seize a painting that a Houston museum has ...
February 28, 2019
German town defends seizing family's pet, selling it on eBay
Officials in Germany are defending their decision to seize an indebted family's pet pug and sell it on eBay, saying the move ...
February 27, 2019
Vodka 'bound for North Korea' to be destroyed or sold
Dutch customs officials who discovered thousands of bottles of vodka suspected of being smuggled to North Korea say the ...
Michael Urkonis
February 14, 2019
Mixed finish for US stock indexes over weak retail sales
U.S. stock indexes clawed most of the way back from an early slide Thursday to finish mostly lower, ending a four-day winning ...
February 11, 2019
Michael Jackson wax statue removed by Danish mall
Denmark's oldest shopping mall has removed a wax statue of Michael Jackson out of fears it could offend customers and may be ...
George Michael
February 08, 2019
George Michael's art collection up for auction at Christie's
George Michael left a rich legacy of music — and of visual art. The musician's collection of works by some of Britain's most ...
January 25, 2019
Berlin police seize 3 Hitler paintings as possible fakes
Berlin police say experts are examining three watercolor landscapes allegedly painted by a young Adolf Hitler to determine ...