One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 ...

The jewelers attempted to sell the necklace to Marie Antoinette, but she turned down the offer. Boehmer and Bassenge, in need of a buyer, got in contact with a noblewoman and con artist ...

The Australian show is interested in how art and ephemera gain power and potency through their associations with history—or rejection from it. The Van Gogh painting, the only horizontal portrait ...