The pearl earring in Johannes Vermeer’s famous masterpiece was likely a fake, researchers say.

Seven artists will compete for a cash prize and a chance to exhibit their work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum.

Top museums organizations condemned the Brauer Museum of Art’s plan to sell major artworks to fund the construction of new dorms.

The fight over the mural, painted by high school students, evolved into a First Amendment case.

Art museums and schools are encouraged to apply for the grants.

A new study details the creation of a hyper-flexible material inspired by an unexpected source: the humble sea cucumber.

The extensive exhibition confronts the Netherlands’s often-forgotten colonialist legacy.

The 1,600-year-old fragment was part of a dodecahedron, a mysterious object that experts believe may have been linked to the occult.

The Renaissance work by Francesco Salviati is the museum’s first painting on marble.

Twitter’s curbing of free API access could affect accounts posting from museum collections or the archives of long-gone artists.

Critical race theory, which has been attacked by conservative lawmakers, is conspicuously absent, as are many contemporary and living Black artists.

The US government has lifted a Trump-era ban that kept formerly imprisoned people from accessing their works.

A work of art will be on the line when the Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs this Sunday.

Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art made a guest appearance at the Grammys. 

Tomohito Ushiro's design features billions of shifting lighting patterns and encourages people to use the restroom without "feeling stress."

The 7.8-magnitude quake has killed at least 2,600 people and destroyed a 2nd-century castle, among other landmarks.

The Legion of Honor in San Francisco says it’s the first exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance artist’s drawings.

“Untitled” (1961) by George Morrison is the first work by a Native American artist to join the museum’s Abstract Expressionist collection.

“You can’t have idols; it’s in the second commandment,” he screamed before being arrested.

Manhattan now has its own, downscaled version of the artist's famous Chicago sculpture, oddly squished under a luxury condo tower.

Increased oil tanker truck traffic would "seriously degrade" the experience of viewing the canyon's Indigenous rock art, said one advocate of the site.

Jafar Panahi was arrested last July, after he participated in protests at the notorious Evin prison.

Designed by artist Christine Egaña Navin, the items will be offered by Project Art Distribution at this weekend's NADA Flea Market.

In an open letter, European institutional leaders defend Manuel Borja-Villel, who has faced right-wing attacks for his progressive programming.

A new study posits that rising smog levels in 19th-century London and Paris likely played a role in blurring the lines of realism.

“We clearly f-ed this one up,” said a Metropolitan Transit Authority rep, adding that the error in the artist’s last name is being fixed.

At least we won’t have to look at it on Earth.

The statue could be a likeness of Trajan Decius, emperor of the Roman Empire from 249 to 251 CE.

The action could disrupt public access to the museum as workers campaign for higher wages and better labor conditions.

Over 500 scholars signed an open letter to reinstate the exhibition, which was postponed in consideration of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Hamburg’s Antisemitism Commissioner disparaged photographer Adam Broomberg for his support of the BDS movement.

The excavation project also yielded Old Kingdom-era amulets, stoneware, and daily-use tools.

The steel spike clad in gold and silver commemorated the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.

Thanks to a $3.3 million grant from the state’s Creative Corps, artists can now apply to bring the project to their neighborhood.

The controversial technology determined that the so-called de Brécy Tondo is an original by the Italian Renaissance master.

Specialists inflated the protest artwork as part of conservation testing at the Museum of London.

Some museums are opting for new language to describe the preserved individuals in their collections who were once living humans.

Multiple posts about the film have been taken down on Twitter, many of them following the government’s removal requests.

Fayneese Miller is under fire after the school failed to renew the contract of an adjunct who showed artworks depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

Hundreds of visitors were evacuated from the Incan site over the weekend.

Asma Naeem’s appointment comes in the wake of a tumultuous period for the institution.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed centers the artist's campaign to stop the “artwashing” of the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.

Researchers are investigating whether the presence of lead formate originated from past attempts to conserve the painting.

Despite the deluge of online memes, reactions on the ground were mostly positive, but some think the work lacks context.

The sword, mislabeled as a copy when it was acquired by the Field Museum, dates back 3,000 years.

A Brazilian collector sued the Detroit Institute of Art over a loaned Van Gogh he claims is his, but a judge dismissed the lawsuit. Here’s why.

Applications are now open for Creative Recovery LA, a new initiative focused on arts organizations hardest hit by the pandemic.

Advocates say the art was “emblematic of the tunnel" and that city agencies did not warn the community before painting over it.

Grantees of this year’s “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” award, announced today, will each receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds.

Artist Milad Ahmadi hand-painted the vinyl red poppy flower to commemorate the lives lost since the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini.