From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers to cut from its frame a priceless Caravaggio:

The interesting detail here is that the [...]

Once in a while, the world sees the discovery of an ancient artifact in good condition that isn’t a forgery.  In this case, excavators near Skopje have unearthed a relatively awesome late Roman Venus pudica:

All too often, things like this turn up and prove to be clever forgeries, sometimes to the amplified embarrassment of those [...]