The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

White statues of the classical world also fit ideals of the 18th-century Enlightenment period, such as purity and clarity. The lack of color also reduced the sculptures' sensuality and set them apart ...

The White House on Monday pushed back on a French politician who called for the United States to return the Statue of Liberty to France, jabbing the “low-level” French lawmaker.

The U.S. government owns the Statue of Liberty, according to UNESCO World Heritage Convention reports, so take-backsies might not be possible for France. "Absolutely not," said White House Press ...

Today, Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in ...

Robert Johnson III, the Democratic leader, authored a resolution to replace Mississippi’s two statues of Jefferson Davis and J.Z ... the legacy of people who fought to maintain slavery and white ...

The white statue, which caught my attention at a meeting on March 9 during China’s annual parliamentary session, depicts Ming Dynasty navy general Zheng Chenggong, or Koxinga as he is known ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It’s believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

The ACLU sent a public records request to Quincy regarding the controversial statues of St. Michael and St. Florian. Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch and City Council President Ian Cain dismissed the ACLU ...