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Where is Edward Bawden’s monumental painting Country Life? UK trust launches search for missing masterpiece
Jacob Rothschild’s Waddesdon Manor wants to track down the massive mural created for the 1951 Festival of Britain
Important portrait painting missing for more than 60 years is returned to Montana university
The Montana Museum of Art and Culture has been reunited with an important Impressionist portrait
The hunt for as many as nine elusive Vermeer paintings continues
As the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster brings together an unprecedented number of works by the Old Master, paintings including a self-portrait are still missing
Could one of these lost Van Goghs—which disappeared during the Nazi period—be hidden in your attic?
These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away
Rediscovered Schiele painting is turned into an NFT
The work, depicting the artist's uncle at a piano, will also go on long-term loan to Leopold Museum in Vienna
Lost Art: Do NFTs mean the end of real-world art?
The digital works can be seen as just the latest overhyped trend, or the newest incarnation of using technology to create art
A lost Van Gogh self-portrait had the most extraordinary frame that included his much-loved sunflowers—here it is reconstructed
The painting—which went missing in a German salt mine during the war—was given a gilded frame with swirling lines
Lost art: will virtual exhibitions replace in-person museum-going?
A lasting change of the coronavirus pandemic might be how shows are viewed
Hunt still on for a Van Gogh self-portrait lost deep in a salt mine during the Second World War
The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive
Samsung partners with art crime expert to hunt for world's missing masterpieces
Paintings by Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne, which were stolen in dramatic art heists, are available to view online
Stolen Klimt painting—buried for 20 years—to go back on show at Italian museum
Discovered by the gardener at the Ricci Oddi gallery last year, Portrait of a Lady will be the star of a series of exhibitions on the much-loved artist
Spanish dealer claims to find long-lost Frida Kahlo painting
Missing for six decades, La Mesa Herida (The Wounded Table) may be in a London warehouse, but experts say the work is likely a fake
Lost Art: the disappearing art of how we buy art
How will the experience of art collecting change after the coronavirus pandemic?
Lost art: works with a death warrant
Should we mourn the loss of art that was only made to be destroyed?
Where is the portrait of Dr Gachet? The mysterious disappearance of Van Gogh's most expensive painting
Frankfurt's Städel Museum put a detective journalist on the case
Lost art: to save, or not to save, when works are in peril
From Smithson’s Spiral Jetty to a mordant Trump nutcracker figure
Lost Art: the mysterious allure of Japan’s Three Sacred Treasures
Does the imperial collection really include a mirror of wisdom, a sword of valour, and a jewel of benevolence gifted from the gods?
Mass theft of art from East German citizens revealed in new report
Study reveals that up to 8% of museum acquisitions were looted from private citizens
Lost art: the great Caravaggio whodunnit
Ahead of the painting's sale, the art historian Noah Charney asks whether the pricey work is a true lost treasure or one of scores made by Caravaggisti
Lost artists: why some creators disappear
The world is full of wonderful artists, but not all their names are known, and fewer are remembered
Lost art: should we rebuild sacked castles and ruined palaces?
Noah Charney examines how historic buildings that were needlessly destroyed can live on today
Lost art: on the trail of vanished cities of legend
Noah Charney explains how mythological clues can lead us to real findings
Lost art: the possibly forged but tantalising Sinaia lead plates
Noah Charney on the potential problems and fascinating details behind these little-known and under-studied objects
Lost art: when works disappear into private collections
Noah Charney on works that are “extant but inaccessible”
Lost art: the joys of the ephemeral
Noah Charney on amazing works that were always meant to be temporary
Lost art: chasing the elusive Ghent Altarpiece panel
Noah Charney on the work that was the target of 13 different crimes
Lost art: the world’s invisible collections
Noah Charney on the Sadnikar family's extremely personal collection in Slovenia
Lost art: Has Caravaggio’s long missing Nativity been found?
Noah Charney on the Carabinieri's efforts to track down the stolen painting
New hope for lost Frida Kahlo painting
Expert says new evidence could reveal the location of Mexican artist’s biggest work, which “disappeared into thin air”
Lost art: Homer’s Troy and Priam’s Treasure
Noah Charney on how epic histories became mythical stories