The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K. Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai on the move at Tate Britain. Photo: Matthew ...

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Immortality is what makes a god a god. Launching a thunderbolt is an attention-getter, while the transformation of a human projection into an animal avatar can be disconcerting. Feeding a multitude ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a culturally significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” some of the museum’s ...