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 ...

Beeple's robo-dogs stole the show at Art Basel Miami Beach as visitors flocked to the fair's new digital art section.

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

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

With around 80 works believed to survive today, here's our top 10 of paintings by Caravaggio: the ultimate Baroque Bad Boy.

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

Two pop-up shows, three concerts, and a fateful morning swim comprised our gossip columnists week in the Magic City.