A college at Cambridge University handed over a looted bronze artifact to Nigeria on Oct. 27. The Jesus College Cambridge returned a statue of a cockerel known as “Okukur” during a ceremony to the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and …
An artwork by Banksy, which partially shredded itself after being sold at a previous auction three years ago, has resold on Oct. 14 for £18.6 million ($25.43 million), a record for the artist. The artwork titled “Love is in the …
A bronze statue depicting a scantily dressed woman from a 19th century poem has sparked a sexism debate in Italy, with some politicians calling for its removal. The statue, unveiled over the weekend in the southern Italian town of Spari, …
Italian police announced on Aug. 19 that an alleged major cocaine trader, accused of buying two stolen Van Gogh paintings with drug money, was arrested on Aug. 4 in Dubai. Raffaele Imperiale, an alleged leader in the Italian Mafia Camorra, …
A tiny sketch of a bear’s head by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $12.2 million at a London auction on July 8. Measuring less than eight square inches, the drawing titled “Head of a Bear” …
French heiress Léone-Noëlle Meyer ended her years-long legal battle to reclaim a Pissarro painting that the Nazis stole from her adoptive parents. “After all these years, I have no other choice but to take heed of the inescapable conclusion that …
Dutch police arrested a suspect on April 6 in the theft of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from separate museums during nighttime raids last year. In a video statement released on Twitter, Police Spokeswoman Maren Wonder …
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design announced plans to host its annual MassArt Auction virtually for the second year in a row due to the ongoing pandemic. The annual auction is a significant source of scholarship funding at MassArt, …
British artist Sacha Jafri has sold the world’s largest painting on March 22 for $62 million at an auction in Dubai to raise funds for children’s charities. The Dubai-based artist told BBC News he was “blown away” to have raised …
France will return its only painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt from its national collection to the rightful heirs of the Jewish family who was forced to sell it during the Nazi era. “This decision to return a major artwork …