Arts

A Texas princess has been forcibly evicted from her historic villa in Rome following a court ruling that says all abandoned items, including a treasure trove of Baroque-era paintings and …

Artist duo Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano have unveiled a new work that takes aim at the anti-LGBTQ+ stance of the Italian right-wing government. The roomLunar Set for Uprising Seas, …

This week: we’re taking a tour of the Tate Modern exhibition which brings together the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. One of the exhibition’s …

A multi-million dollar Italian-funded Unesco project in Bamiyan has resumed after being abruptly suspended when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021. In November 2022, cultural heritage experts …

The city of Düsseldorf has reached an agreement on a portrait from its collection, that of Wilhelm von Schadow The Artist’s Children (1830), ending a long-running dispute with the heirs …

More than 1,000 cultural objects in Brazil are currently registered as missing. Many were probably smuggled out of the country and secretly sold to illicit collectors via the black market. …

It’s no secret that Surrealism influenced the development of Abstract Expressionism. Martica Sawin’s rich study, Surrealism in Exile and the Beginnings of the New York School (MIT Press 1995), described …

Tehran-based artists say they have continued to work despite unrest in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini last September. Alborz Kazemi, a photographer who studied painting at the …

The latest point of contention in the long-running Nazi claim of plunder brought by the heirs of a consortium of Jewish merchants against the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) over …

Two of Jean-Michel BasquiatThe artist’s most recognizable paintings still in private hands will be auctioned next month in New York, where they are collectively expected to fetch more than $75 …