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  The oldest known surviving written fragment of Homer's Odyssey has returned to public display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,...

  Nearly a thousand years after English embroiderers stitched the story of the Norman Conquest into seventy metres of linen, schoolchildren...

  Four paintings by the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina have been stolen from the Accascina Regional Museum in Messina, Sicily, timed...

    Italian authorities have arrested five people in connection with the theft of three paintings from the Magnani Rocca Foundation in...

    A Picasso painting stolen from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961 has resurfaced, prompting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to...

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hung a painting attributed to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci in gallery 609 of its European paintings...

  Three works by Banksy have so far cost the public almost £150,000 in cleaning operations, security and administration, with the bill on the...

  The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea has begun a significant restoration project for its celebrated staircase glazing, one of the most...

  Spencer Tunick brought his latest large-scale nude action to Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria, on 26 July, assembling between 400 and...

    We have been eagerly awaiting this announcement since the Venice Biennale, but it has now been confirmed that Jessica Morgan,...

  Pyotr Pavlensky learned on 8 June 2026 that France intends to strip him of his international protection status. The Office for the Protection...

  An announcement on Wednesday by the Glasgow School of Art's management is expected to disclose that they do not intend to rebuild Charles...