03/14/2010. KINSHASA (REUTERS).- In a macabre echo of the punishments Belgian colonials once meted out to their Congolese laborers, a faded bronze statue of the explorer who carved out the country is missing two of his limbs. Pulled down by anti-imperi...

10/17/2010. PARIS (AP).- At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat's short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, doodle-covered work in Paris. Nearly 50 years after his birth...

01/07/2011. HONG KONG.- To inaugurate the Hong Kong exhibition space, Gagosian Gallery will present Forgotten Promises, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Damien Hirst opening on 18 Janua...

01/08/2011. HONG KONG.- To inaugurate the Hong Kong exhibition space, Gagosian Gallery will present Forgotten Promises, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Damien Hirst opening on 18 Janua...

07/22/2011. HONOLULU (AP).- An excavation crew recently made a startling discovery at the bottom of Pearl Harbor when it unearthed a skull that archaeologists suspect is from a Japanese pilot who died in the historic attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Archaeologist...

10/02/2011. NEW YORK, N.Y.- An ambitious exhibition—sweeping in scope and challenging conventional perceptions of African art—opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bringing together m...

02/26/2013. Some months ago, a stone where human sacrifices were performed was found as part of the archaeological salvage work that has been made by the Program of Urban Archaeology (PAU) from the Great Temple Museum. Today, thanks to numerous studies, we know...

11/04/2013. The world's "last" colonial gallery, Brussels' dusty Royal Museum of Central Africa, closes this month to re-emerge with a new vision of the continent more than a half-century after the independence of the former Belgium Congo. Set to reopen in 20...

08/29/2014. France returned the skull of a New Caledonian rebel chief on Thursday, 135 years after it was cut off in a battle between the people of the South Pacific island and their French colonisers. In a solemn ceremony in Paris, France's Overseas Territor...

09/21/2014. An Italian TV show managed to coax Pope Francis into handing over his white skull cap and has already raised over 100,000 euros in less than 24 hours by putting it on eBay. The host of satirical show "Le Iene" (The Hyenas) got up at the crack of d...

05/17/2015. On 22 June 2015 Artcurial will be holding its first Tribal Art sale of the year. Almost 70 carefully selected works will be offered for sale and will be displayed to the public from 18 to 21 June...

02/11/2016. Ronchini Gallery presents Jan Fabre’s first UK solo exhibition, Knight of the Night. The exhibition features works spanning from 1992 to 2013, brought together for the first time to fo...

06/07/2016. With the exhibition ‘Jan Fabre - Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas’ (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), Deweer Gallery presents an exclusive preview of a new series of mosaic works b...

10/10/2017. Tens of thousands of Cubans turned out on Sunday to pay tribute to Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, on the 50th anniversary of his death. An estimated 70,000 people thronged the streets outside ...

12/07/2018. An extensive collection of meteorites, gemstones, gold specimens and fossils are among the top offerings in Heritage Auctions’ Nature & Science auction Dec. 15 in Dallas. “This auction repr...