Britain’s Royal Academy says prince of Liechtenstein has canceled major London art exhibit

Liechtenstein royal cancels major UK art exhibit

Ancient pharaonic paintings that sparked feud between Egypt and the Louvre to return to Luxor

Ancient Egyptian wall paintings to return to Luxor

Ancient pharaonic wall paintings that caused feud between Egypt and the Louvre arrive in Cairo

Ancient wall paintings return to Egypt from France

Detroit as muse: City’s shortcomings provide area artists with plenty of creative inspiration

Detroit artists use city’s blight as their canvas

France returns wall paintings sought by Egypt after feud

France returns wall paintings sought by Egypt

Cops: Son of fantasy artist Frank Frazetta tries stealing $20M in paintings from dad

Pa. police: Artist’s son swipes $20M in paintings

Major Athens exhibition on love in antiquity pairs sacred and mundane

Exhibition on love in antiquity opens in Athens

Raphael sells for $47.5 million at London auction, Rembrandt goes for $33.7 million

Raphael drawing sells for $48M at UK auction

Painter Richard Wright wins British art world’s contentious Turner Prize

Richard Wright wins contentious Turner Prize

Secret attic stash: police seize Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet art from disgraced dairy founder

Italy police seize secret stash of masterpieces

Contemporary Caribbean artists explore their cultural identities during annual Miami art fair

New Caribbean art showcased during Art Basel fair

Rembrandt, who died a pauper, still losing parts of what history believed was his art legacy

Lines of art blur between Rembrandt and his pupils

Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Above the Narrows’ fetches $6.9 million in NY, 2nd highest price for his work

Wyeth painting sells for $6.9M at NY auction

Art & devotion: Ind. museum shows sacred works from Spain, Mexico, Peru never assembled before

Rare exhibition brings together Spanish sacred art

12 detained at Paris auction house over stolen Courbet painting

12 detained in Paris over stolen painting

PARIS — French police detained 12 people in a sweep of a respected Paris auction house Wednesday after finding a stolen Courbet painting worth €900,000 ($1.3 million) at an employee’s house.

2 stolen ancient artifacts being returned to Italy during ceremony in New York City

Looted artifacts being returned to Italy from NYC

Ukrainian museum says portrait of Venetian Doge in its collection is Titian’s work

Ukrainian museum claims it owns a Titian portrait

Books presented at the Vatican look at how Bible is represented in the Sistine Chapel

New Sistine Chapel books to come out in Italy

NC Museum of Art ‘tunnels’ through to new building, uses unusual elements to move works

NC Museum of Art ‘tunnels’ through to new building

French photographer Rancinan serves up playful, edgy revisions of Old Masters

Paris exhibit serves revisions of Old Masters

Red Cross closes warehouse, auctions off doll, Civil War-era flag to shrink its deficit

Red Cross sells pieces of history to cut deficit

Dance contests, zoos, art galleries: Pockets of normalcy endure in Kabul despite the war

Hope and despair live side by side in Kabul

Collectors who say $80M worth of art was stolen from Calif. home named as suspects in case

SALINAS, Calif. — Two men who claim thieves broke into their rental home in the ritzy coastal enclave of Pebble Beach and made off with millions of dollars worth of art were named as suspects in the case Tuesday.

Retired NFL players seeking to help college players in legal battle with Electronic Arts

SAN FRANCISCO — Two retired NFL players on Monday asked a judge to let them formally support a former college quarterback’s legal fight with video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.

Swiss city says law prevents it from returning painting stolen from Jews during WWII

GENEVA — Swiss law bars a museum from surrendering a 19th-century painting that it was given after it had been stolen from a Jewish family in Paris by the pro-Nazi Vichy French regime during World War II, authorities said Thursday.

Swedish art museum settles dispute over painting looted by Nazis

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish art museum said Wednesday it had settled a six-year dispute over a painting claimed by the heirs of a Jewish businessman who lost it when he fled Germany in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution.

9th Circuit Appeals Court: Holocaust survivor can sue Spanish government, museum over painting

LOS ANGELES — An elderly Holocaust survivor from San Diego can continue his legal battle against a Spanish museum to reclaim a valuable painting he says was taken from his grandmother by the Nazis, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Israeli art show removes pictures showing suicide bomber as Virgin Mary after public furor

JERUSALEM — The Israeli journalists’ union on Thursday took down a series of pictures that superimposed the faces of female Palestinian suicide bombers on Madonna-and-child paintings after the images sparked a public furor.

Johannesburg’s trendy downtown cultural hot spot reveals city’s history and creative side

JOHANNESBURG — It’s gritty, it’s hip and it’s downtown in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

Federal judge in Nashville, Tenn., dismisses lawsuit over German art seized by the Nazis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed a lawsuit by a Holocaust survivor and his family against the German government over an extensive art collection seized by the Nazis.

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