A Jewish family asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive their legal fight to retrieve an impressionist work by Camille Pissarro stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust.
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A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar’s sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions.
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France’s top appeals court has rejected a bid by an American couple to win back a painting by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro looted from a Jewish collector during World War II.
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A triptych by Francis Bacon fetched $84.6 million on Monday at a Sotheby’s auction held without an audience and live-streamed to bidders worldwide in a first for the company forced to adapt its big events during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute sued the Estate of Edmund Morris in Ventura County Court, claiming it owns materials Morris used in his presidential biography, “Dutch,” and the estate refuses to return them.
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One day before the nation marks 155 years since the end of slavery, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered the removal of portraits that hang in the halls of the Capitol commemorating four leaders of the Confederacy.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Amsterdam’s famous Van Gogh museum said Wednesday it was the buyer of a rare letter
Read morePresident Trump said Monday that his former national security adviser John Bolton could face a “criminal problem” if he does not halt plans to publish a book that describes scattershot, sometimes dangerous, decision-making by a president focused only on getting re-elected.
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Just after record producer Lij Shaw got a certificate for his work on a Grammy Award winner, Nashville sent him a cease-and-desist letter, citing a city law prohibiting home-based businesses from providing client services in their home. That 5-year tussle may end tonight.
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The demands for an end to police brutality and protection of civil rights for black Americans on signs clutched by protesters as they marched on the nation’s capital are finding their way to historic preservation.
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The Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday it would seek the repatriation from New York of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statuette which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a U.S. court rejected an auction house’s bid to proceed with the sale of the artifact.
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Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.
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Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and help herself focus.
Read moreEagles songwriter Don Henley urged Congress on Tuesday to “Take It to the Limit” to protect artists from online pirating, wading into a copyright fight pitting Hollywood and the recording industry against big tech platforms like Google’s YouTube.
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Archaeologists have briefly revealed a well-preserved mosaic floor of an ancient Roman villa first discovered almost a century ago near the northern Italian city of Verona.
Read moreThe GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison chains, claims Netflix defamed it by alleging bad conditions in its immigration prisons, in the series “Messiah,” in federal court.
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Time never softened the urgency of Larry Kramer’s demands. Theatergoers leaving a celebrated revival of Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” in 2011 were greeted by the playwright himself, deep in his 70s, handing out leaflets outside the Broadway theater demanding they do more to stop AIDS.
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Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album that sparked several careers, died Sunday.
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Moisture slowly ripping apart one of the world’s most recognizable and influential paintings? That is worth screaming about, according to a study released Friday by researchers who uncovered the culprit behind the degradation of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream.”
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