Art Basel pursued a $22,000 cancellation fee from Claudia Altman-Siegel, who closed her galleries and pulled out from the ...

After a protracted legal and diplomatic effort, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus has been returned to the country.

Frederic William Burton's "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs" illustrates a tragic medieval love ...

A rare Rembrandt print from the mid-1560s has sold at Christie's for $4.1 million, a century on from its last appearance at auction.

Helen Frankenthaler pioneered new possibilities for abstraction. Now, a spate of museum exhibition take a closer look at her legacy.

Frank Gehry, America's most notorious architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, is dead. He died at age 96 in Los Angeles, his ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Groundbreaking micoexcavations at Pompeii have revealed that the city's slaves may have eaten better than its free Romans.

In Miami Beach, Pilar Zeta has erected a portal that bridges ancient architecture with futuristic vision. Next, she takes on ...

Less than a year before the Lucas Museum in Los Angeles is set to open, its chief curator, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, has left the ...

New Zealand-born artist Emma McIntyre on how mythology and Rococo art powered her banner year and what's on the horizon.

Jack Butcher is letting visitors pay what they wish for 'Self Checkout' with a countdown tracking his profits and loss.