The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...

Street artist RETNA walked away from his studio. Now Heritage Auctions is offering the contents for sale as abandoned ...

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Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the ...

With groundbreaking biennials, major exhibitions and highly anticipated museum debuts, 2025 promises an exciting year of art ...

A monumental discovery in Luxor has reignited global fascination with ancient Egypt. Archaeologists have unearthed an ...

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As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

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Philbrick’s $86-million scheme, the largest art fraud in American history, saw him fake documents, conceal ownership interests and invent a fictional art collector as he collateralized and ...

By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of ... in Chelsea is a constellation of galactic and human history. His Painting Does the Talking: Marlon Mullen ...