Jun Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some previous scholarship—they appear to have been damaged for “pragmatic and ritualistic reasons”
The artist’s 37ft-tall “Split-Rocker” was donated to the museum by collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick
A man attempting to capture a picture of himself at the Florence gallery tripped and left a hole in a work by Anton Domenico Gabbiani
A man attempting to capture a picture of himself at the Florence gallery tripped and left a hole in a work by Anton Domenico Gabbiani
The show at Leeds’s Royal Armouries Museum also features everyday objects such as surgical equipment and souvenirs from visits to see battles at amphitheatres
The show at Leeds’s Royal Armouries Museum also features everyday objects such as surgical equipment and souvenirs from visits to see battles at amphitheatres
The move comes ahead of a series of planned reforms to improve competitiveness within the Italian art market
Objectionable Cubist collector used skills developed in an elite network to become a tenacious “Monuments Man”
Figures behind the Fine Art Group and Arte Collectum explain why now is the right time to launch a fund
Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum’s board