In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.

The street scene of Montmartre has been owned by the same French family for more than 100 years.

These are the most memorable thefts from museums and art spaces around the world.

Images of the 15 tallest statues in the world as of today, plus five bonus photos of some more famous—if smaller—colossal monuments

The painter captured the imperfections of the flesh so completely that they became a kind of perfection.

In 1966, I went to Hamburg. I was the keyboard player in Bluesology, and we had a residency at the Top Ten Club, where the Beatles had famously cut their teeth. It was a real baptism of fire. We played on the Reeperbahn, five hours a night in among the brothels and sex shows, to audiences who hadn’t come to see us. But it was still great: we played so much we didn’t have any choice but to improve as a band. Certainly, it was better than my solo debut on the continent a few years later, when some bright spark booked me as the support act to Sergio Mendes in Paris.

The one-of-a-kind broken glass medium used by the artist to create the portrait uniquely embodies Kamala Harris' glass-shattering achievement.

In this rare depiction of Vincent, now in a Hiroshima museum, he is observing a raucous cabaret in Paris

The vibrant pigment, created accidentally in 2009 by chemists at Oregon State University, is now commercially available.

I have this fantasy where the artists go on strike. I dream that one by one, in their own quiet ways, the artists, the writers, the musicians, the comedians, the graphic designers, the marketing gu…

YInMn Blue, the pigment discovered in 2009 at Oregon State University, has finally been approved by the EPA for use in artists' materials.

A thriving graffiti culture has been brewing for decades in Beijing, featuring Chinese characters, animals of the zodiac ... and complaints about the price of pork

Authorities managed to recover the Yves Tanguy work—left behind by a businessman bound for Tel Aviv—before it was destroyed

A 73-year-old grandfather may seem like an unlikely social media sensation, but Japan's Harumichi Shibasaki is defying stereotypes. The painter's YouTube channel, Watercolor by Shibasaki, features a series of how-to art videos and has amassed more than 700,000 subscribers. His most popular video, a tree painting tutorial, has been watched more than five million times.

They are impressive, perhaps even inspiring, but can artworks created by computers be considered as art?

If you’re reading this, chances are you have some sort of a relationship with Google. Most of us rely on the search engine to look for information instead of storing it on our own brains (which experts say is making us stupid), heading to it for searching, surfing and sometimes even contributing to the endless databases.

Videos of Jonothon Lyons, an accomplished performer, have gone viral for his romps around New York City in a lifelike rat costume.

How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.

A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Spain’s Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prank

“We are thrilled to learn of its discovery — one that came about thanks to close looking and careful observation by a museum visitor,” Peabody Essex Museum Director and CEO Brian Kennedy said in a statement.