Italy is asking the Louvre to return seven ancient artifacts that experts say were looted. In February, Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano met Louvre President Laurence des Cars in Paris …
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Artist duo Cooking Sections have ventured into the Turkish pudding business, selling traditional buffalo milk dishes from an Istanbul storefront to help sustain a pastoral culture endangered by the food …
Brazilian conceptual artist Cildo Meireles has won the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, becoming the first Latin American artist to do so since its founding in 2001. The honor, which comes with …
No one can fault the Brooklyn Museum It’s Pablo-Matic: Picasso according to Hannah Gadsby in an attempt to present a narrative of Picasso’s legacy that centers feminist artists, but the …
The UK has imposed an export ban on a $2.9 million Alberto Giacometti chandelier to allow a local institution to acquire the work
UK fights to keep unique bronze chandelier in Alberto Giacometti within its borders, enacting a temporary export ban to give a local institution a chance to match the £2.4 million …
Italian police have arrested a man suspected of setting fire to a popular Arte Povera facility in Naples
Italian police have arrested a man suspected of setting fire to the Michelangelo Pistoletto Venus of the rags settling in Naples. The suspect was identified as a 32-year-old homeless man …
Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia has received $22.2 million to turn First Bank into a museum
THE First Bank of the United States building, a historic Philadelphia landmark built in the 1790s, will be transformed into a state-of-the-art interactive museum following a $22.2 million grant to …
France’s oldest auction house, Drouot, has sold a 30% stake to two investment firms
The French auction market is about to be turned upside down after two investment companies acquired 30% of one of the oldest and largest auction operations in the world, Drouot, …
Gallery owner Pearl Lam lands in Tokyo and shares insider tips on the city’s explosive art scene
Pearl Lam is a gallerist, collector, patron and curator with over 20 years of experience at the forefront of reinventing China’s cultural place in the world. Lam is a leading …
One-to-Watch Chris Oh replicates classic Renaissance imagery on geodes, seashells and other natural shapes to eerie effect
As a child, artist Chris Oh (b. 1982) spent hours copying drawings from encyclopedias at his parents’ home in Portland, Oregon. “I had these World Book encyclopedias from the 1990s …