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The Dutch loved painting lemons; Italians, oranges and pears. Meanwhile, artists from the US and France were the most likely to incorporate the humble cracker into their canvases.
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In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.
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Jersey City officials have painted over a contentious artwork that the city's public arts program commissioned, prompting calls to tighten what critics view as a highly ambiguous, if not essentially nonexistent, citywide public arts policy.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a punk rocker righted the gender imbalance in an exhibition on the genre's history, two Monets were seized from a Malaysian businessman accused of fraud, and a court ordered artist Orlan to pay Lady Gaga $22,000.
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Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world's largest flowers that smells like death.
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For the first three days of the Republican National Convention, a super-sized version of Donald Trump's signature coiffure swept its way across Cleveland, inviting anyone to enter its gleaming, golden locks.
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This week in art news: Gagosian Gallery agreed to pay $4.28 million in back taxes to the state of New York, Jeff Koons laid off 15 studio workers who were attempting to unionize, and Florentijn Hofman unveiled a giant bear sculpture made of conifer tree branches.
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In the subterranean network of caves on Mona Island, 41 miles west of Puerto Rico, archaeologists have discovered a series of engravings by both indigenous people and the early European colonizers.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a drunken Brexit supporter attacked an artwork featuring a hijab, a specialist disappeared with the possible da Vinci drawing he was asked to authenticate, and thieves who stole stones from a historic battlefield came down with the Gettysburg curse.
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To better protect sacred indigenous objects from being sold in international markets, Senator Martin Heinrich has introduced the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act with support from politicians of both parties as well as tribal leaders.
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UNESCO announced Sunday that 17 of Le Corbusier's 20th-century buildings will be added to its World Heritage List.
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It's no picnic being the world's biggest basket.