Pablo Picasso

A former bank president who smuggled a Pablo Picasso painting out of Spain after it was deemed a national artistic treasure has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Jaime Botin, 83, was also fined $58 million and ownership of “Head of Young Woman” — which is valued at $26 million — was also transferred from him to the Spanish state in…

For months the most visited museum in the country — New York City’s Museum of Modern Art — was closed to allow staffers to retouch works and expand its gallery space.

The restaurant will serve as a ‘community gathering place’ for the Spanish Community.

A 1917 nude masterpiece by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million in Manhattan Monday, the highest auction price in Sotheby’s history.

A Pablo Picasso painting expected to fetch $70 million at auction was “accidentally” damaged on Friday, according to a statement from auction house Christie’s.

New York City collects sales tax on even the smallest items, but it probably won’t collect a cent in taxes on a nearly half billion dollar painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

The world’s most expensive painting, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” is going to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the museum announced Wednesday, a few weeks after it was sold for a record amount at auction in New York.

The annual Art Basel show is underway, but it’s not been a picture perfect start for the biggest art show of the year.