Chandra Noyes

The artworld enters 2020 with a little less humor. John Baldessari, often called the father of conceptual art, died on January 2 at the age of 88.

In case you missed them, here are our ten most popular stories of 2019.

An elderly Frenchwoman had the surprise of her life when she recently found out that a humble religious icon hanging in her kitchen was worth millions of dollars.

Conservators at Northumbria University in the UK recently found a surprise lurking beneath the surface of a 16th-century painting.

Usually, this many bugs in an art museum would result in an urgent call to the exterminator. But when Canadian artist Jennifer Angus is in town, an infestation becomes a thing of incredible beauty.

Archeologist's recent discovery of ancient cave paintings may change everything we know about human’s relationship to art.

Banksy surprised residents of Birmingham this week with the kind of Christmas card only he could send—a touching new piece of street art.

Researchers are refuting a 2018 theory that one thing that gave Leonardo da Vinci an artistic advantage was exotropia, a rare condition that results in a slight misalignment of the eye.

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced a radical new plan to make their museum and its collection more inclusive. As part of their 2020 Vision strategic plan, the museum will only purchase…

This fall one of the world’s greatest cultural treasures has been under siege. Venice, often called the Floating City, has been submerged in nearly six feet of water.

More than a decade in the making, three years under construction, and $24 million later, the newly reborn Asheville Art Museum opened its doors last week, welcoming visitors into what feels like an…

The result of the 80 home searches was the arrest of 23 individuals and the seizure of around 10,000 precious cultural items.

Denmark and Iceland are rekindling a decades-old conflict over an invaluable collection of manuscripts.

For forty years, the canvas sat unrecognized in a private collection in Lyon, France. Now the painting, a recently rediscovered work from Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi, is coming to the…