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Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projectsIn a hunt for ceremonial robes and chains, a dusty chunk of stone propping open the door of a storage shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, was almos…
Innovative scanning techniques show painting of sculptures was potentially as intricate as their carvingThough the Parthenon marbles were admired for centuries for their stark white brilliance, it has long been known that the sculptures were originally…
Exclusive: archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis accuses Manhattan DA’s office of abusing intellectual propertySince 2017, when the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced the formation of its first antiquities trafficking unit, it has recovered n…
Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 yearsA life-sized bronze statue of Agatha Christie has been unveiled in the Oxfordshire town of Wallingford, near where the detective novelist resid…
With powerfully alive new works at the Met and MoMA, the Iranian-born artist Nairy Baghramian embraces the canon, the better to take it apart.
Former head of V&A has suggested Parthenon Marbles could be shared with Greece A former head of the V&A Museum, who previously suggested the Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece, has been put forward as the interim director of the Brit…
Historians and local people ponder presence of 8ft pole after appeal to find artist unsuccessfulWhen a totem pole mysteriously appeared on a popular coastal path in south-east England, local speculation as to who was responsible for the wooden monolith…
A centuries-old Buddhist sculpture was taken from a rural area in Cambodia nearly 30 years ago. It was later sold with two other statues to the National Gallery of Australia.
Statues of extinct animals peek out from the trees, delighting onlookers in this London park. But don’t expect them to be scientifically accurate.
Venus of the Rags, one of the contemporary Italian artist’s most famous works, was burnt to cindersOne of the most famous works by Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags, has been burnt to cinders in a suspected arson at…