Acadia Phillips explores what ekphrastic writing is and how museums are using it today to help visitors establish a stronger dialogue with visual art.

Since Peter Higgs’ resignation in July 2023, the British Museum filed a complaint against the former curator. Now, a High Court judge is ordering him to return up to 1,800 Greek and Roman artifacts that he knowingly looted.

Believed to have been looted from the Libyan coast during WWII, the Ptolemaic-era statue will remain at the CMA on loan for an unspecified period of time.

For the first time in 50 years, Diego Velázquez’s portrait of Isabella of Bourbon was set to fetch $35 million at Sotheby’s New York, but in early January 2024, it was withdrawn from auction.

In a stunning turn of events, in the ongoing Accent Delight International Ltd. et al v. Sotheby’s et al art fraud lawsuit, a jury decided in favor of Sotheby’s in the world’s longest art-feud trial.

A sleepy, southern Italian town kept one of the art world’s biggest secrets for more than 50 years.