Known for its outdoor art, Philadelphia has twice gutted its public arts office, and officials have not inventoried the collection in decades. At least 85 works are recorded as missing.

“There’s a long history of artists defining or ridiculing what is art,” says the art market analyst Michael Moses, who ...

The magnificent Impressionist painting of a rainy Paris streetscape that hung on a wall in Lilly Cassirer’s home in Germany ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross may be a practitioner and admirer of visual art, but in cinema, he strives for the effect of poetry.

Philadelphia owns more than 1,000 public artworks — but scores are missing. Plus, open road tolling begins on parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

"Even if such works may legally be owned by an individual, in a higher sense, they belong to everyone; their owner is only ...