What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Gustav Klimt work have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first ...

A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece ...

The Austrian master’s full-length “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sparked a 19-minute bidding war to become the most valuable modern artwork sold at auction.

A Gustav Klimt portrait has sold for $236.4m, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. The ...

The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 so we would never forget the horrors of modern war, but it is unsure how to remember Britain’s modern history. Britain is no longer imperial. The mass ...

A new exhibit, “After Cubism: Modern Art in Paris, 1918-1948,” opens Friday, Aug. 18, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, exploring the changing landscape of modern art in Paris in the years following ...

Exhibited at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum ...

The modern-day Monuments Men will be based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The U.S. Army Reserve and the Smithsonian are partnering to establish a modern-day "Monuments Men" program, reviving a ...