How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new ...

For centuries, critics and observers alike have argued over if Mona Lisa is smiling. Do we now have an answer?

Early on the morning of August 21, 1911, a brazen thief dressed as a museum employee entered the Louvre in Paris without raising an alarm. The building was only open to staff when the Italian man ...

The decision to isolate the Mona Lisa in a dedicated room at the Louvre is a response to a need for crowd management, but it ...

The Mona Lisa is probably the most celebrated artwork ever made, visited by millions of tourists every year, constantly re-invented by film-makers, meme-makers and advertisers. But for art ...

Painter Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, UK) reflects on illusory and fragmentary space and depictions of black figures and experience in The Unseen, an artist-curated selection of 25 works from the Christen ...

Many artists have tried to recreate the Mona Lisa with their own twists, and most recently, some Genshin Impact players from China made their version of the iconic painting using nothing but character ...

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ...