Perching is a stance that our avian friends epitomize the best. The Perch is seating that looks contemporary without the bother of being overbearing. Iterated for museums and galleries where one can sit and admire works of art for a long period...

With museums increasingly digitizing their art collections, it becomes pretty easy to forge paintings. Now, two researchers are working on a digital system to help detect original works from counterfeit...

Many museums are good for first dates, though the ones mentioned here might best be shared with good friends only—those who also have an interest in the truly odd and bizarre. Be warned: these museums include an assortment of un-PC art,...

Three or four times a day, a banana shows up at the Liberty Science Center and complains about a pain in its side. And that means it’s time for some visiting kids to dress up like surgeons and scrub nurses, take a scalpel and go to...

Sometimes it just happens that an endeavor to create or find something ends up giving us something a lot better and a lot grander. While that is not always true, it is something that has happened in case of the spectacular Water + Life Museums that...

When the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles was seeking to finance the purchase of art works, it did what cultural institutions often do to raise money: It issued bonds.But rising interest rates brought on by turmoil in the financial markets...

Pope Benedict XVI has made one of Italy’s leading art experts the new director of the Vatican museums, it was announced Tuesday.Antonio Paolucci has been art superintendent in Venice, head of Florence museums and Italy’s culture...

At the beginning of his career as an art dealer, Ernst Beyeler was $2,000 in debt. In 1951, he had to pay the $4,500 price in installments to make a Kandinsky his first major acquisition.In the 60 years since, more than 16,000 paintings, drawings...

A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus isn’t an accustomed kind of artifact to place inside your home. Found in Siberia, a 1.2 meter long fossilized baculum (penis bone) from an extinct walrus has been sold for US $8,000 at a natural...

Bright colored and hand woven textiles from the Mayan people of Guatemala and southern Mexico are being exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art. The textiles, created from the early decades of the 20th century till present day, come from...