02/17/2019. When choosing a university - whether its an undergrad or postgraduate program - there’s a lot of options. It’s only natural that pupils would want to aim toward the top of these choices too. For those who seek art as a field of study, t...

01/01/2020. Syd Mead, the visual artist behind "Blade Runner" credited with shaping the sci-fi landscape with his futuristic movie designs, has died in California aged 86. Mead, who worked on films including "Aliens", "Tron" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture...

03/20/2020. For three years, Sibylle Ehringhaus, a veteran provenance researcher, worked with the Georg Schäfer Museum in northern Bavaria to examine the ownership history of its 1,000 oil paintings and several thousand drawings, prints and watercolors. Georg...

04/02/2020. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary right about now. But with COVID-19, it has closed, along with the Guggenheim, the Neue Galerie, the Cooper Hewitt and all the other museums along the stately stretch of t...

04/21/2020. Since its formation in 2008, the Tesla Quartet has been showered with critical accolades, released two recordings, hired a manager and lined up a full schedule at major concert halls around the world. Even so, life as a professional string quartet...

07/01/2020. Most weeks, the top of the Billboard album chart is a story of hip-hop, more hip-hop and maybe a pop star. This week it also features Bob Dylan, the 79-year-old songwriter and cultural chameleon who four years ago won the Nobel Prize in literature. ...

07/24/2020. Dia Art Foundation announced the reopening of Dia Beacon and Dia Bridgehampton and an updated exhibition schedule at these locations for 2020, following four months of COVID-19–related closures...

07/27/2020. Olivia de Havilland, an actress who gained movie immortality in “Gone With the Wind,” then built an illustrious film career punctuated by a successful fight to loosen studios’ grip on contract actors, died Sunday at her home in Paris. ...

08/07/2021. In 1990, when Congress passed a law that set criteria under which federally recognized Native American tribes could reclaim ancient burial remains and sacred objects, legislators hoped to encourage the return of items by museums and other institution...

08/24/2021. Do you want to buy a more than 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family heirloom? On auction site liveauctioneers.com, bidding for the Sumerian clay tablet starts at 5...

08/09/2022. For years, Georges Lotfi made himself a valuable source of information to prosecutors investigating the global trafficking of looted antiquities. A tip from Lotfi led to the seizure of the gold Coffin of Nedjemankh from New York City’s Metrop...

08/16/2022. The premiere of a new production of Leos Janacek’s opera “Kat’a Kabanova” had just ended at the Salzburg Festival here last week. When the lights went up, Kristina Hammer, the festival’s new president, was wiping tears off he...

09/16/2022. Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who cemented the ensemble’s reputation as one of the country’s premier interpreters of African American spiritual music, died Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70. ...

12/23/2022. In June or July, Dollywood employees begin stringing more than 6 million twinkle lights across Dolly Parton’s namesake theme park here in the Smoky Mountains. In a mad sprint just after Halloween, they add more than 650 evergreens, including ...

08/15/2023. On my last pre-pandemic trip to the Loire Valley, in 2018, I found myself in a familiar place. Ten years after my first road trip on the region’s castle route, I was back at the 500-year-old Château de Chambord, joining a small group of Europ...