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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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.
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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
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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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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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With the Nazis murdering Jews and ransacking their property outside on the infamous nights of Kristallnacht in 1938, 13-year-old David Toren sat in the sunroom of his wealthy great-uncle in Germany admiring a favorite painting depicting two men on horseback on a beach.
Read moreDeeplight Labs sued the United States in federal court, claiming TSA agents destroyed its artwork while searching it.
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Researchers using a battery of modern imaging techniques have gotten under the skin of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” but tests haven’t answered the key question about the world famous painting’s enigmatic subject.
Read moreA federal court in New York dismissed racketeering claims brought by a Spanish art collector who lost two valuable paintings he owned – including a Picasso — after consigning them to an art gallery. The collector, who claims the gallery owner — who was convicted of fraud — and other parties engaged in a pattern of selling art they had no legal right to sell, failed to plead his RICO claims but may pursue some of his state-law fraud, conversion and replevin claims.
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All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone.
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A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police and the museum said Monday.
Read moreA federal judge in New York ruled in favor of a video game developer in a copyright infringement suit brought by a company that claimed to own tattoo designs on certain basketball players – including LeBron James – whose images were featured in its games. The court ruled that tattooists granted the players “nonexclusive licenses” to use the tattoos as part of their likenesses.
Read moreLauren Oliver sued Meow Wolf in federal court, claiming it violated copyright and misappropriated her Space Owl art, in breach of contract.
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A California man pleaded guilty Tuesday to three federal criminal charges after he admitted to selling fake artwork purported to be by artists like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat and used the fraudulent work as loan collateral.
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The Mexican government delivered to Nigeria on Tuesday an ancient bronze sculpture seized by customs agents at Mexico City airport as its buyer tried to bring it into this country.
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Norway gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for the demolition of a bomb-damaged building adorned with drawings by Spanish master painter Pablo Picasso.
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Upholding a $6.75 million judgment against a luxury real estate developer, the Second Circuit affirmed Thursday that his whitewashing of graffiti murals at 5Pointz violated the Visual Artists Rights Act.
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It took more than 45 years, but 219 paintings thought lost or stolen that include some considered to be among the most significant works Greek Cypriot artists have produced were put on display Monday.
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