An expert on the trafficking of antiquities has called on Hindman Auctions in Chicago to cancel the sale of a Roman marble head until possible links to the disgraced British dealer Robin Symes can be disproven. Forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis has made public

  Researchers digging in an ancient necropolis on the Italian island of Sardinia recently made a truly monumental discovery—a pair of torsos belonging to a group of millennia-old larger-than-life sculptures known as the “giants of Mont’e Prama.” The first batch of the stone figures,

  When a retrospective of the work of past Turner Prize winners was held at Tate Britain in 2007, Grenville Davey’s was shown next to Damien Hirst’s. The latter’s sculpture, Mother and Child Divided (1993) a four-part vitrine holding a bisected cow

  A posthumous cast of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is to be auctioned on 30 June at Christie’s Paris with an estimate of €9m to €14m. It was made around 1928 at the Rudier Foundry, the family business founded by Alexis Rudier

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has returned a pair of looted ancient Greek statues to Libya, one of which had been on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1998. The Hellenistic bust of a veiled woman (ca. 350 B.C.E.) is

A bronze statue depicting three pivotal women’s rights advocates, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, was unveiled today in Central Park in New York, marking the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing the

Too often, the sculpture market plays second fiddle to paintings, but during this week’s Old Master sales in London, works in bronze and marble are the stars. Between them, Sotheby’s and Christie’s were going to offer up the “best group

Headlining Christie's Classic Week sales in London this July will be a rediscovered marble statue by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, executed in the final year of the artist's life. Should the work fetch anywhere within its £5m-£8m estimate, this

The twisted body of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s David—muscles taut, brow furrowed in concentration, as he is poised to release the stone that will defeat Goliath must have been an impressive enough spectacle to those who first saw it in 1624, even