Art News

Washington - An elderly New Yorker has joined the legal fray over the ownership of artwork found in a Munich apartment that was allegedly looted by the Nazis during World War II.In a complaint filed Wednesday in US district court in Washington, David Toren asks the...

Havana - The Cuban government has confirmed the theft of around 100 pieces from Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts. The theft is the first disclosure of such an event since Fidel Castro took power in the late 1950s.

New York - Activist investor Dan Loeb Thursday nominated himself and two allies to the board of Sotheby's, arguing the auction house's current board lacks the skills and inclination to undertake needed changes.Loeb, chief executive of hedge fund Third Point, Soth...

Washington - After an art history professor took offense at a comment he made last month, US President Barack Obama sought to make amends -- with a handwritten note of apology.Last month, Obama -- speaking on the economy at a factory in Wisconsin -- said "folks can...

New York - The website employs geotagging, which uses the metadata of images to provide the latitude and longitude of the street art. Users can navigate city streets in a kind of street art scavenger hunt, discovering public art that might be otherwise overlooked.

Beijing - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei Tuesday shrugged off the smashing of a $1 million Han dynasty vase that was part of his exhibition at a Miami museum, saying his works often get broken.Ai had painted the urn, which dates from the Han dynasty of 206BC...

Munich - The discovery of more art looted by Nazis, almost 70 years after the end of World War II, has made George Clooney’s “The Monuments Men” timely.

Paris - In under two weeks, the art world has been rocked by cases of forgery in which paintings with a potential value of millions were unmasked as worthless fakes.The two episodes, entailing a bogus Marc Chagall and a Ferdinand Leger, have shed light on the ...

After wearing a paper bag on his head to a red carpet premier and walking out of a press conference for his new film, actor Shia LaBeouf's latest bizarre antic was to reveal an art project on Tuesday.

Munich - The art hoard of an elderly German recluse suspected to contain Nazi-looted paintings and drawings is bigger than first thought, his spokesman said Tuesday.More than 60 additional works have been discovered in the Austrian home of Cornelius Gurlitt, am...