"It was sitting in a barn for so many years and it was just completely untouched. It was beyond dirty. It was so black that ...

Known for his distinctive long hair and three-piece suits, the convict Bill Pallot has been described by magazine Vanity Fair ...

A French court on Wednesday sentenced a top antiques expert to jail for duping the Palace of Versailles and wealthy ...

A prominent French furniture expert and a respected restorer have been convicted in a major forgery case that shook the ...

Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...

Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France's Ancien Régime, they were ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

The Met's $70 million Michael C. Rockefeller Wing opens with funding from Per Skarstedt, Adam Lindemann, and George Economou.

Ernst Gombrich’s book was an unlikely bestseller — 75 years on it speaks powerfully about the dangerous politicisation of culture ...

Puebla is a city of museums and history, so we sent our local expert to hunt down the one you need to visit the most.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry…  This oft-heard phrase is actually a misquoted line from the poem "To a Mouse," by the ...