The artist Diego Marcon, who turns film into a machine for eerie beauty, suspended tension, and delayed shock, is having a ...

A rare Rembrandt print from the mid-1560s has sold at Christie's for $4.1 million, a century on from its last appearance at auction.

Art Basel pursued a $22,000 cancellation fee from Claudia Altman-Siegel, who closed her galleries and pulled out from the ...

Helen Frankenthaler pioneered new possibilities for abstraction. Now, a spate of museum exhibition take a closer look at her legacy.

Frederic William Burton's "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs" illustrates a tragic medieval love ...

After a protracted legal and diplomatic effort, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus has been returned to the country.

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Frank Gehry, America's most notorious architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, is dead. He died at age 96 in Los Angeles, his ...

Groundbreaking micoexcavations at Pompeii have revealed that the city's slaves may have eaten better than its free Romans.

Less than a year before the Lucas Museum in Los Angeles is set to open, its chief curator, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, has left the ...

Mega-gallery Hauser and Wirth is on the move yet again. This morning, its president and cofounder, Iwan Wirth, confirmed to Artnet that it is acquiring the historic Palazzo Forcella De Sata in Palermo ...

Beeple's robo-dogs stole the show at Art Basel Miami Beach as visitors flocked to the fair's new digital art section.