BUFFALO, New York (AP) ― A possible 16th-century Michelangelo painting that hung for years in a local family’s home is being displayed in Rome as part of an exhibit of Renaissance art, a development its owner calls a major milestone as he works to have it accepted by the art world. Scholars disagree on whether “La Pieta With Two Angels” was painted by Michelangelo or by one of his collaborators....

PARIS (AFP) ― China’s new clout on the global art market, and its taste for home-grown works, is driving up the price of contemporary Chinese artists ― forcing the Western art world to make space at the table for the rising stars. Last year China became the world’s leading auction marketplace for fine art, after overtaking France, Britain and finally the United States in the space of five years,...

AMSTERDAM (AP) ― Two American authors believe Vincent van Gogh was fatally shot by two teenagers and did not die from self-inflicted wounds, but the new theory won a skeptical reception Monday from experts at the museum dedicated to the 19th century Dutch master. A book by Pulitzer prize-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, “Van Gogh, The Life,” concludes that Van Gogh, who suf...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ― Works by Italian artist Caravaggio are on display along with pieces by those influenced by him in an exhibit in Fort Worth, Texas. “Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome” opened Sunday at the Kimbell Art Museum. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 8, features 10 works by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and more than 40 works from artists inspired by him, including Juse...

PARIS (AFP) ― Masterworks by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas get a new home next week as Paris’ Orsay Museum reopens its impressionist gallery following a two-year, multi-million-euro revamp. Twenty-five years after its creation in a 200-year-old railway station on the south bank of the River Seine, Orsay has spruced up around half of its exhibition spaces at a cost of 20.1 million ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ―Nearly a century after it was stolen by a German soldier during World War I, and after a decade of transatlantic legal wrangling, a painting by French Realist Jules Breton is going home. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will return “A Fisherman’s Daughter” on Thursday to France’s ambassador to the United States, Francois Delattre, in a solemn ceremony at the French emba...

LONDON (AFP) ― A homage to the disappearing format of analogue film by the British artist Tacita Dean is the latest exhibition to fill the cavernous space at the Tate Modern in London. Plunged into darkness, visitors to the former power station see a huge screen resembling a piece of film, placed vertically, up which scrolls a constantly changing series of images, such as the sun, a snail or a f...