MANITOWOC — On the second floor of the mansion at the Rahr-West Art Museum is a small room originally used as a servant’s room for Joseph Vilas in the 1890s. It has unique gold leaf wallpaper created ...

The growing movement to return African art taken by colonial European powers continues to pick up steam, with the Ivory Coast joining Benin and Senegal to demand that France return several treasures ...

Carved towers worth $850,000. An intricate Japanese netsuke worth $14,000. These aren’t excerpts from the latest auction lot at Sotheby’s, but just some of the $4.5 million worth of sculptures and ...

Collectors of artwork containing ivory may find themselves with a problem when it comes to planning an estate or probating a will: Many such objects are banned from sale, and museums may not accept ...

Ivorian Painter Aboudia Takes Teen Rebellion To Top Of The Art World By Marietou Ba March 19, 2025, 9:04 pm EDT Share ...

Etsy Prevents Alaska Native Artisans From Selling Ivory Art Per the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, indigenous people of Alaska can legally use ivory from walrus tusks and whale teeth and bones.

A new exhibition is looking at the traditional art form of scrimshaw through a wider context and contemporary lens. "The Wider World and Scrimshaw” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...