For centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and her enigmatic smile have inspired as much speculation as admiration. Now she's ready to answer questions — in Mandarin. A digital, interactive ...

Plus, a lawyer wants to strip the Whitney of its tax-exempt status and Sotheby's online Impressionist and Modern day sale brings in $9.9 million. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Photo by Jakub Porzycki ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

An ownership dispute is heating up over a version of the Mona Lisa that is widely believed to be by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. An international consortium jointly owns the painting, but now the ...

PARIS (AP) — The “Mona Lisa” has given up another secret. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into the ...

Benjamin Blake Evemy takes you on a journey through the most interesting and unbelievable heists the art world has seen, starting with the disappearance of the most valuable painting in the world.

An online petition that started as a joke has gone viral, becoming a kind of digital performance art piece all of its own. By Anna P. Kambhampaty In order to “imagine a new art, one must break the ...

Explore how the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris for over two years. It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard ...

Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism and ...