Russia’s ruble hit its strongest level in 7 years despite massive sanctions. Here’s why
Russian one ruble coin and Russian flag displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken…
New York’s LaGuardia Airport Unveils New Permanent Artworks by Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, and Others
For the second time in as many years, New York has opened a new, state-of-the-art terminal at Queens’s formerly decrepit…
24 Shows to See in Venice Beyond the Biennale, From Stanley Whitney’s Italian Paintings to a Major Survey of Marlene Dumas
Art lovers making a pilgrimage to Venice for the delayed opening of the 59th Venice Biennial will have packed dance…
U.S. Authorities Seized More Than $1 Million in Looted Asian Antiquities From Yale University
Homeland Security agents impounded more than a dozen looted Asian antiquities, valued at $1.29 million total, from Yale University in…
‘It’s the Start of Our Modern World’: How the British Museum’s Show of Ancient Artifacts Unravels the Secrets of Stonehenge
Some 4,500 years ago, a prehistoric people built one of the world’s most enduring monuments, the monolithic sarsen slabs of Stonehenge,…
An Italian Court Demands the Restitution of an Ancient Roman Lance Bearer From the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Torre Annunziata court near Naples, Italy, has ruled that the Minneapolis Institute of Art must restitute an ancient statue…
In an Ambitious Initiative, Artists Around the World Will Create New Work Exploring Mental Health at Five Major Museums
As mental health becomes increasingly central to conversations about how to live a healthy life, four international museums are coming…
A Dürer Drawing Picked Up at an Estate Sale for $30—Now Worth More Than $10 Million—Is Making Its Public Debut in New York
Art lovers take note: you can now see Albrecht Dürer’s drawing The Virgin and Child, one of the most exciting art-historical…
How a Wildly Popular Fashion Trend That Dominated Stone Age African Civilizations Suggests a 50,000-Year-Old Social Network
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a 50,000-year-old social network—perhaps the world’s earliest—thanks to pieces of Stone Age…
The U.S. Supreme Court Will Offer the Final Word in a Two-Decade Battle Over a Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting
A two-decade-long legal battle over a painting by Camille Pissarro will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court on January 18.…
‘We Were Speechless’: Restorers Uncover Pristine Elizabethan Murals Behind Peeling Paint in a Yorkshire Manor
Restorers at Calverley Old Hall, a medieval manor in Yorkshire, England, were recently shocked to discover a suite of Tudor wall…
The National Gallery’s Prized Peter Paul Rubens Painting Is Actually a Fake, New Artificial Intelligence Testing Has Found
A series of tests using artificial intelligence have found that the Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece Samson and Delilah (ca. 1609/10) at the…
7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Duchess Kate Middleton’s Intimate Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Part of a Touching Tribute Exhibition in London
Two photographs by Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, are part of an exhibition honoring Holocaust survivors at the Imperial War Museums in…
A brief history of asylum seekers at the Olympics — and why they are sometimes misunderstood
The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo this week after her Olympics were over, bound not for her home country,…
This Superstar Amateur Metal Detectorist Just Found Her Second Cache of Viking Coins on the Isle of Man in Less Than a Year
For the second time in less than a year, an amateur metal detectorist has discovered a cache of Viking treasure…
Angela Merkel shocked by ‘surreal’ floods devastation in Germany – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed shock at what she described as surreal destruction caused by last week’s flooding. At…