In 1951, an original oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck disappeared from an English country estate—only to mysteriously reappear across the pond a few years later. Now, just over seven decades later, an ...

Using archives, letters, and auction records, an art historian has uncovered who stole a Van Dyck from an English country ...

A dubious “Van Gogh” has sparked a battle between technology, connoisseurs, and the high-stakes art market. What does AI, ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...

Self-taught, he practiced “the lost art of making furniture well,” producing pieces for collectors, presidents and even the ...

The National Endowment for the Arts is the unsung force behind loans that bring masterpieces to millions of American ...

Errol Morris' film is built around the theory that Charles Manson learned mind-control techniques from the CIA. But guess ...

This is a practice called lost wax casting, wherein a metal object is cast from a wax figure. It’s an art form that dates back thousands of years. For decades, the manufacturer of the Oscars ...

At the heart of these generators is a complex process where the AI analyzes the text, understanding context, objects, attributes, and emotions conveyed. The AI then references vast databases of images ...

From strange wooden tools and statues to ancient human remains, these objects are drawing archaeologists into the high, frozen mountains each year. Norway is at the forefront of this emerging ...

“It’s essential to have systems for ongoing monitoring and record-keeping,” said David Knowles, founder of the UK-based art consultancy Artelier, noting that government turnover “makes it easy for ...