Australia's most expensive painting, a Sidney Nolan "Ned Kelly" work, was given away on Wednesday only days after setting the nation's art record.
After decades spent amassing the world's top private collection of tribal arts, Swiss collector Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller is switching his sights - crusading to save the heritage of little-known peoples across the globe.
With more Chinese taking to collecting antiques, and official relics experts serving mainly museums, television is stepping in to fill the gap.
British artist presents cultures in photographs.
Director Zhang Yuan's latest project, a photo exhibit with video interviews, takes a look at youth angst.
For the French, it may always remind them of delicious escargot, but for most everyone else the @ symbol has come to embody the age of the Internet and its constantly evolving language.
Don't go to the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments -- affectionately known as the MIM -- unless you're prepared for constant surprises.
Dubai's annual art fair hit new highs in both sales and volumes despite concerns in the Gulf's trading and tourism hub over a debt crisis.
The paintings of Han Xin capture modern life as it intrudes on tradition.
2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci, an Italian missionary who introduced Western culture, art and science to China during the Ming dynasty.
In an effort to create a sense of shared history, the European Union has launched an initiative to promote important sites of culture and heritage across its 27 member states and the continent.
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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