Annah Otis
The Netherlands will return 20 objects taken from Indonesia during the country’s 350-year colonial rule under an agreement signed this month by Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science…
Following a months-long review of whether overseas visitors should pay at the door of national British museums, the United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media and Sports confirmed that…
More than 10 years after being commissioned to paint a canvas for the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic by the State Department, Kehinde Wiley is endeavoring to buy …
When Florida real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family first began purchasing paintings and prints from the Miami Fine Art Gallery in 2023, they thought they were building an unrivaled…
For the first time in approximately 900 years, the Bayeux Tapestry has made its way back to Britain for an exhibition that opened on September 10th at the British Museum and has…
After years of deliberation and delay, the National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) has found a home in the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure sitting…
The summer of 2026 has been an unusually successful one for museum thieves as European institutions grapple with a rising number of break-ins and heists.
As car enthusiasts perused hundreds of unique vehicles along the Carmel coast, five auction houses sold a record $762 million in collector machines during Monterey Car Week this August, far…
Eight prints from Henri Matisse’s celebrated 1947 Jazz series, valued at about $190,000, are back in the hands of Brazilian authorities after being recovered from an apartment…
From coconut palm leaves folded into ceremonial forms in Bali to brown ash splints woven into baskets in Maine and wool blankets woven across the Navajo Nation, a younger generation of artists is…
Staff at both the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) voted to strike over pay and working conditions in late July as European cities recover from a record-breaking…
The Smithsonian Institution, long regarded as a trusted keeper of the nation’s shared history, has spent the summer fighting to defend its independence.
A new influx of nine-figure gifts is reshaping American arts institutions as the second Gilded Age emerges and newly minted billionaires begin hefty rounds of giving.
Auction houses have long measured their seasons by paintings and sculptures, but the numbers favored a relatively overlooked category this spring season.
This year’s FIFA World Cup in North America has turned into an unlikely showcase for art as soccer, sculpture, and sports memorabilia converge across the tournament cities.
