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From $4 to $191,000: Thrift Store and Yard Sale Finds That Turned Out to Be Real Treasures
An N.C. Wyeth bought for $4, a Ming bowl found at a $35 yard sale, a Roman bust from Goodwill: the thrift-store art finds that held up, and how to spot one.
A Georgia O’Keeffe Hidden in an East Village Closet for 40 Years Could Sell for $3 Million
Bought for $3,800 in 1963 and packed away in the 1980s, O’Keeffe’s Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I (1930) goes to auction at Christie’s New York on November 17.
French Court Orders Return of Nazi-Looted Pissarro Sold at Sotheby’s London for £1.2 Million
A French court has ordered a 1902 Pissarro view of Dieppe returned to the heirs of Jewish banker Salomon Flavian and declared its 2024 Sotheby’s sale void.
Portrait Artist of the Year 2026: Every Celebrity Sitter, the New Judges and the Heat Winners So Far
Rylan Clark, Alison Balsom and Jamie Lloyd sat for episode five of Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year. Here are the heat winners, the remaining sitters and the new judging panel.
Trump Declares the Oval Office a National Monument. Here’s What That Changes
A proclamation under the Antiquities Act puts the Oval Office, Outer Oval Office and Cabinet Room under Interior Department management, but still allows redecorating.
Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026: Katie Hitchcock-Smith Wins With Moroccan “Cowboys”
Katie Hitchcock-Smith has won the £15,000 Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026, formerly the Taylor Wessing Prize, at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
35 Rembrandt Etchings Found in a Dutch Family Folder, Bought for a Few Guilders a Century Ago
Charlotte Meyer inherited a folder of prints her grandfather bought cheaply in the early 1900s. Experts confirmed 35 of them were etchings by Rembrandt.
The Lady of Shalott: The Story Behind Waterhouse’s Most Famous Painting
What John William Waterhouse’s 1888 painting at Tate Britain shows, the Tennyson poem behind it, the details to look for, and his two other versions of the subject.
A Box in a Dutch Attic Held Stolen National Treasures, Including the Logbook of Admiral de Ruyter
Documents stolen from the Dutch National Archives in 2015, including the VOC’s 1602 founding report and Michiel de Ruyter’s logbook, turned up in an attic and were returned by art detective Arthur Brand.
Rick Lowe, the Artist Behind Project Row Houses, Turns Data on Black Progress Into Art
Featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Rick Lowe’s largest U.S. museum show, Black Wall Street Journey, is at the University of Michigan Museum of Art until January 24, 2027.