The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground ...

From a Gerhard Richter retrospective to rediscovered master Michaelina Wauliter, here are the eight must-see shows across the ...

Across Europe, curators and directors are now re-evaluating their security frameworks as the Louvre theft exposes the ...

Read an excerpt from art history professor Bénédicte Savoy's book "Africa's Struggle For Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat." Bénédicte Savoy, Africa's Struggle For Its Art: History of a ...

Attitudes toward returning cultural artifacts, often looted during colonization, are changing. In countries like France, Germany and Belgium, the... Across Europe, Museums Rethink What To Do With ...

As cultural institutions reopen across the United States, with new coronavirus protocols in place, many have been looking to Europe, where many museums have been open since May, for a preview of how ...

Museums in Western Europe are starting to reevaluate how to deal with certain colonial-era artifacts added to their expansive collections over the years -- despite being stolen or plundered. Some of ...

Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. VENICE — A year after the ...

No one can accuse the French of letting a little global recession stand in the way of their cultural pride. The proposed new museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, a vast minimalist cube ...

Attendance at some major institutions is a third of what it was last year. Their ability to cope depends almost entirely on how they are funded. By Nina Siegal AMSTERDAM — Visitors to the ...