Emmanuelle Polack made the discovery less than one month after she was brought on board to study the museum’s ill-gotten artwork

The artifact is one of thousands left destroyed, damaged or missing after civil war broke out in the 1990s

Slated for this year are new institutions dedicated to ancient Egyptian, the Olympics, African American music and the Army

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores 12 women’s contributions to the male-dominated artistic circle

The 16th-century hamlet, incorrectly believed to be the inspiration for the fictional kingdom of Arendelle, hopes to stem the deluge of tourists

A new show at New York’s Grolier Club features the collection of Lisa Unger Baskin, who sought to share the untold stories of women in the workforce

A new show at the Foundling Museum in London highlights artists’ depictions of pregnant women over the past 500 years

Authorities suspect the artworks were smuggled into West Germany during the 1980s

A five-year research effort validates an 1889 painting completed during the artist’s stay at an asylum

The statues are “surprising, rewarding and promising beyond belief,” says one expert of the private Torlonia Collection

A new photo series titled “Restricted Residence” features 42 thermal images of locals and their changed landscape

Following his father’s death in 1973, Christopher began editing and publishing the “Lord of the Rings” author’s unseen writings

At the Portrait Gallery, a new show gets at the visual heart of competitive camaraderie roiling within artist colonies

The Separate Cinema Archive contains more than 37,000 objects dating from 1904 to the present

A new analysis suggests the Pachacamac Idol, once thought destroyed, is probably older—and less bloody—than once believed

Greg Priore and John Schulman stole and resold hundreds of rare texts over a 25-year period

An anonymous buyer purchased the manuscript, penned by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin in 1892, for $8.8 million

Paris Musées, which manages 14 important institutions, has released a trove of images into the public domain

An upcoming Hirshhorn collection exhibition will honor the artist’s seven-decade career

The list, dominated by children’s literature, spans 125 years of reading

At the African Art Museum the inspiring stories of 50 individuals from the continent are honored in classical and contemporary works of art

The find is particularly intriguing because it represents the first evidence that Dürer visited the Austrian city

Skulls uncovered beneath St. Giles’ Cathedral gave faces to a 12th-century man and a 16th-century woman

The drawing accompanied one friar’s first-person account of a trip from Venice to Jerusalem and Egypt

To safeguard cultural heritage, a massive Smithsonian-led cultural rescue operation can now be mobilized to help countries recover from disaster

In a push to redirect tourists to other parts of the country, officials are dropping “Holland” from promotional and marketing materials

Sweden’s Rök stone, raised by a father commemorating his recently deceased son, may contain allusions to an impending period of catastrophic cold

Kane Tanaka of Japan is a rare supercentenarian, or person above the age of 110

A new multimedia show includes the primatologist’s childhood possessions, a 3-D film and a “Chimp Chat” station

From Australia to Malaysia, these villages are prized for their abundance of bookstores

Despite Eliot’s assertions to the contrary, the letters point to a passionate love between the duo

The clay figures are part of the vast subterranean army built to protect the formidable emperor Qin Shi Huang in the afterlife

This once-lost copy of “A Problem in Greek Ethics” is only the sixth of its kind

The group is seeking one million images in order to create a high-quality reconstruction

After 95 years of exclusivity, this is an expiration date worth celebrating

Roie Galitz considers himself an ambassador for the creatures he photographs, capturing their intimate moments in hopes of inspiring conservation