After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...

New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...

The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political ...

The National Endowment for the Arts is the unsung force behind loans that bring masterpieces to millions of American ...

As a result, animals turned up "in any possible context where art would be made", from wall paintings and carved doorways to ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...

The wing was first closed in 2021 for a complete overhaul and has undergone more than $70 million​ in changes.

In 1823, civic-minded merchants met in a tavern to establish a public library, later soliciting book donations with a ...

Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...

Curators at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in New York have acquired three vintage photographic collages by ...

His works are part of the collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy, the National Museum of American Art ...

As the chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), established in 2010, Nadar is credited with increasing the ...