09/30/2003. MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.- The Museo Franz Meyer presents “World Press Photo 03,” on view through October 19. The exhibition shows the results of the World Press Photo contest, the largest international competition in the field of phot...

01/11/2005. TORONTO, CANADA.- Photographer Peter Schafrick is the recipient of the 2004 Black & White Spider Awards, First Place in Still Life Photography, for his entry “Road Kill.” Juried by the world's leading curators, auctioneers, editor...

01/08/2010. WASHINGTON, DC.- The heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are pleased to announce that they have reached a Settlement Agreement with the Trustees of The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation resolving their ownership claim to the painting The ...

02/23/2010. MIAMI, FL.- The Bernice Steinbaum Gallery announces an auction of quilts from Gee’s Bend to benefit the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund in association with the Haitian Cultural Ar...

07/16/2010. LOS ANGELES (AP).- Heirs of the late Lucille Ball and her second husband are sparring over the planned auction of some of the couple's prized possessions, including a Rolls Royce and some of the actress' awards. Other items on the auction b...

11/30/2010. PARIS (REUTERS).- Pablo Picasso was both hugely prolific and famously generous with his work, but was he enough of a free spirit to give hundreds of his early works -- an invaluable collection -- to his electrician? That question lies at th...

03/30/2011. LOS ANGELES (AP).- The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Jacques Goudst...

07/09/2011. ALBANY (AP).- The Union's first black hero of the Civil War wasn't one of the African-American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, famously depicted in the 1989 film "Glory," but rather a merchant ship's cook who took up arm...

09/03/2011. By: Desmond Butler, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP).- The heirs of a Jewish art collector can proceed with a lawsuit against Hungary seeking the return of art seized during the Holocaust that is worth more than $100 million, a federal judge ...

10/22/2012. LOS ANGELES (AP).- DC Comics will retain its rights to Superman after a judge ruled Wednesday that the heirs of one of the superhero's co-creators signed away their ability to reclaim copyrights to the Man of Steel roughly 20 years ago. The...

02/17/2013. A photo of Gazans taking two children and their father killed in an Israeli air strike for burial has won the 2013 World Press Photo award for Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, judges said Friday. The staff shooter for the Dagens Nyheter daily too...

07/08/2015. Last month marked the completion of an ‘e-volunteer’ project between The National Maritime Museum and The National Archives to make details from all the surviving First World War merchant navy crew lists for 1915 searchable online for the f...

10/12/2017. Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera -- where his last wife tragically shot herself -- is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros ($24 million) at an auction on Thursday. The artist spent his twilight years on the estate at Mougins i...

09/22/2023. Seven works by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele were handed over Wednesday to the heirs of the Viennese cabaret artist who had owned them before he was killed by the Nazis, marking a major turning point in one of the art world’s longest-runni...

08/04/2024. For three weeks in May a judge in Rochester, New York, heard evidence meant to solve the mystery of who really owns a drawing of a smiling woman by Austrian artist Egon Schiele. For years, the drawing has been in the possession of a foundation nam...