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The real story behind those crystal skulls Indiana Jones went looking for

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may have disappointed, but the crystal skulls are real, and their history is fascinating

The Famous Burney Relief: Who Was the Mysterious Mesopotamian Goddess?

Major artists create tiny new artworks for Model Art Gallery

Major artists create new micro artworks for miniature gallery Major artists create new micro artworks for miniature gallery Masterpieces in miniature: artists including Sean Scully, Damien Hirst, Magdalene Odundo, and Gillian Wearing create tiny new artworks for the 2021 Model Art Gallery at Pallant House, Chichester All images: Installation views of ‘Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery’ at Pallant House Gallery. Photography: Rob Harris We all have a fantasy art collection, and it’s often one of two things that stand in the way of realising that fantasy: money, and wall space. There may be a solution to the latter: contemporary art on a doll’s house scale. 

Masterpieces in Miniature, Pallant House

Scottish university claims Benin bronze bought for £750 is worth £500,000—but is that now really the case?

Aberdeen University says its Head of an Oba was acquired in a way that it now considers “extremely immoral” © Aberdeen University. Aberdeen University’s Benin bronze, which is being restituted to Nigeria, was bought at Sotheby’s in 1957 for £750. A paper prepared for the university’s governing body, released to The Art Newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act, now values it at £500,000. The late-18th century head of an oba (king) had been looted by British troops in 1897. A university statement on 25 March recorded that Head of an Oba had been acquired in Benin “in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral”. By the 1920s it was owned by Sydney Burney, a London dealer. A later owner was H.B. Bell-Syer, who sold it in 1957.