Amy Sedaris hosts Super 8 motel art giveaway at NY gallery

Giant Chinese zodiac sculptures are turning heads in Boston

Abstract Rothko painting could fetch $40M at spring auction

NEW YORK – Collectors looking to add a Mark Rothko work to their portfolio have the opportunity to acquire a large blue-and-green painting by the celebrated...

Smithsonian to acknowledge Cosby allegations at new museum

WASHINGTON—The Smithsonian now plans to acknowledge the sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby at its new African-American history museum on the National Mall, which will display two...

Smithsonian to include 2 Cosby items in new history museum

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian and Bill Cosby can’t seem to escape one another. After facing criticism for an exhibit of works from Cosby’s personal art collection,...

US museum returns 10th century Khmer statue to Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodia has welcomed home a 10th-century Khmer statue it says was looted during the country’s civil war and spent the past three decades at...

National Arts Centre to expand music program in Atlantic Canadian communities

OTTAWA—A music program that gives children in rural and remote areas in Atlantic Canada access to teachers from the National Arts Centre is part of the...

Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home restored, to be open to public

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As a boxer and humanitarian, Muhammad Ali stood out. So does the bright pink home in Kentucky where he shadowboxed and played pranks...

New museum honours Poles killed for helping Jews in Holocaust

MARKOWA, Poland—Jews and Catholics offered prayers Thursday at the graves of Jews hunted by the Nazis and a Polish family killed for trying to save them,...

Detroit museum’s exhibit explores dance in American culture

DETROIT – A new exhibit organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts presents more than 90 paintings, sculptures, photographs and costumes to celebrate and explain the...