Arts

The decision by New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art to donate four works by Edward Hopper, including a major oil painting, to Sotheby’s New York spring sales this month …

Early on the morning of Saturday April 14, shortly after the call to prayer, residents of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum heard mortar and artillery fire as intense fighting broke …

An official website and video using a computerized mascot inspired by Botticelli’s The birth of Venus (circa 1485) to promote tourism in Italy aroused much ridicule. Meanwhile, an Italian campaign …

THE San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after years of mounting financial difficulties, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Filing may precipitate liquidation of more than $65 …

Getty Images, the U.S.-British visual media company and image provider, has rejected a $4 billion takeover by Trillium Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, saying the bid is not “sufficiently …

The National Gallery in London will exhibit some unusual objects next week for an art museum. A piece of tattered brown cloth and a rope belt, allegedly over 800 years …

A new partial judgment from a California court helps clarify trademark proceedings in the cryptosphere. On April 21, a judge ruled in favor of Yuga Laboratoriesa blockchain technology company that …

Tuesday evening (April 25), as Brooklyn Museum trustees, members and other well-wishers arrived for the institution’s annual meeting Brooklyn Artists Ball fundraiser, they were greeted by a picket line formed …

France is finally making public its long-awaited policy on the dossier responsible for the restitution of cultural property. The government will release tomorrow an 85-page report on the subject by …

The Benin Bronzes restitution saga took a new turn after the Nigerian government officially recognized the Oba of Benin (Oba Ewuare II) as the owner and custodian of the objects …