Items stolen from the Oakland Museum of California included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs ...

The "brazen" heist at the Oakland Museum of California occurred in the early morning hours of October 15. Investigators are ...

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When most people think about billionaire collections, they picture walls lined with Picassos or garages filled with vintage ...

A new show featuring decommissioned statues dispels myths of American history at a moment when President Trump is insisting ...

With a recovery rate below 10%, most stolen works are never found. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to monetize.

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. This habit has given researchers in southern Spain a unique boon: “time capsules” of ...

What was once a democratic souvenir of cultural engagement is turning into a limited-edition emblem of privilege.

Over its 25 years of existence, Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture has amassed more than 80,000 artifacts. Jacob McMurray helps ...

The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the ...

When David Arsenault takes down a worn, leather-bound 19th-century book from the winding shelves of the Boston Athenaeum, he ...

A recently published study suggests humans' creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought ...