A senior Thai official has been arrested in Japan for allegedly stealing three paintings from a hotel's hallways.

Some of the most famous artists in history may have left subtle clues to brain disease in their work, scientists have found.

Anti-Mafia police investigating the Camorra gang in Naples have recovered two Van Gogh paintings stolen in 2002.

Gardaí in Offaly have recovered six valuable pieces of artwork during a planned operation this afternoon.

Sales at Whyte’s, de Veres, Adams and Morgan O’Driscoll will offer plenty of choice, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Armed bandits have stolen 17 paintings, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens and Mantegna, from Verona’s art museum.

Des O’Sullivan says La Gommeuse is from the fabulous Koch collection.

Three valuable paintings that were stolen from a house in Wicklow last year have been recovered, after a man cutting a hedge found them discarded in a black bag.

Dancer Michael Flatley has been stepping his way into the history books for the past 21 years — and now he’s tapping into the global art market, having reinvented himself as a painter.

Work from a famed Cork photographer and Sebastião Salgado feature in today’s auction of images in aid of the Survival charity, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

A man and woman could hold vital clues to the theft from a church of six valuable paintings depicting scenes from the Stations of the Cross.

Even at this time of great difficulty most Greeks will, rightly, react with vehemence when the Parthenon Marbles are mentioned.