They were together only a few hours. But that brief union of a celebrated, 3,000-year-old bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti with a modern bronze nude body touched off a furor. Some Egyptians are ...

This year, observes Mary Heffernan, the general manager of Castletown House, is the 275th anniversary of the birth of "the great heroine of the story of Castletown", Lady Louisa Connolly. On a ...

Is the contemporary art market bubble about to pop? Felix Salmon at Reuters argues that the number of people selling big-ticket contemporary art works at auction in New York this month who have only ...

We begin with the first work to enter an American museum, the harshly modeled bronze “Bust of St. John the Baptist” (1880), given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1893. That year, Rodin exhibited ...

For millennia, philosophers, thinkers and religious types have pondered the whereabouts of the seat of the soul. For a while it was thought to be in the appendix – essentially because people couldn’t ...

A couple of weeks ago, we looked briefly at Cambridge-born painter Jenny Saville and how her self-portrait from 1992, Propped, sold for £9.5m at Sotheby’s in London earlier this month. This was the ...

Sotheby's modern art evening sale in New York on Tuesday night collectively hammered at $152 million, or $186.4 million with buyer's premium, across 60 lots. Fifty works sold, for a sell-through rate ...

Art experts lost track of Auguste Rodin's bust of Napoleon in the 1930s. Little did they know the multimillion dollar sculpture was on display in a town hall building in Morris County, New Jersey, all ...