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Experts have reclassified a painting as a Rembrandt after years of attributing it to one of the Dutch master's students. Ernst van de Wetering of the Rembrandt Research Project said Friday that X-ray analysis of "Bearded Old Man" has revealed outlines of a self-portrait of Rembrandt as a young man underneath.

An art installation by Martin Kippenburger is damaged by an overzealous cleaner who tried to scrub away a patina designed to look like a dried rain puddle.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's interior minister says two Pablo Picasso paintings owned by a German museum and stolen from a Swiss exhibition have been found in Belgrade.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a popular draw whenever fragments of the ancient manuscripts are displayed at museums around the world. Now you can get a close-up glimpse of the scrolls with a few keystrokes on your personal computer.

A sketch done by Dutch painter Rembrandt was taken by thieves from under the nose of distracted curator, but authorities say they have now recovered the artwork.

A 11-by-6-inch pen-and-ink drawing titled 'The Judgment' by the 17th century Dutch master is valued at more than $250,000. Authorities say a man working with accomplices is believed responsible for the theft late Saturday.

Private collector William Koch buys the only known tintype of the Old West outlaw. It is believed to have been made in New Mexico around 1880. What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid went up for auction in Denver on Saturday and sold for $2.3 million.

Some of the earliest Americans turn out to have been artists. A bone fragment at least 13,000 years old, with the carved image of a mammoth or mastodon, has been discovered in Florida, a new study reports. While prehistoric art depicting animals with trunks has been found in Europe, this may be the first in the Western Hemisphere, researchers report Wednesday in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

The proposed reductions fall short of the $100 billion in cuts Republicans campaigned for last fall but represent substantial hits to various programs including law enforcement, NASA, the EPA and arts funds.

An Italian researcher says the main influence and model for the "Mona Lisa" was a male apprentice of the artist Leonardo da Vinci....