SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 50 years in business, an iconic San Francisco restaurant is closing its doors. The Mona Lisa Restaurant, a fixture in the city’s North Beach neighborhood since 1979, will ...

Mona Lisa Restaurant — an Italian diner that has served as a staple for almost 50 years in San Francisco’s North Beach ...

From a bizarre carved cherry pit to Jan van Eyck’s only known surviving drawing—here are the works not to miss in the German ...

A week after thieves stormed the Louvre and ripped eight priceless pieces from France’s crown jewels, the country is nursing a deep cultural wound.

Restoration of an antique Stabila level made from Indian teak wood, featuring Egona Garantie and Stabila marks. The level was initially purchased for restoration but was abandoned until being ...

French police detained two men for allegedly stealing 19th-century jewels from the Louvre's Gallery of Apollo in a daring ...

One of the stories in Leblanc’s book was “The Queen’s Necklace”, centred on the real jewels made for Louis XV’s mistress, ...

In Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany, a collector has brought what is believed to be the world's oldest Volkswagen Beetle back onto ...

Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the myth in ...

The theft of eight priceless pieces of Napoleonic jewellery Sunday follows in a long tradition of daring art heists at ...

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market, from the most historic heists to ...