Scientists said that they have proved the world's first ever oil paintings were in caves near two destroyed giant statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, hundreds of years before oil paint was used in Europe.

A stolen painting by the giant of Swedish literature, playwrite August Strindberg, has been found in a residential building north of Stockholm.

Swiss police has found two Impressionist paintings stolen in one of Europe's largest art thefts. The paintings were found in an abandoned car near Zurich mental hospital.

Police say robbers have stolen paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet - worth more than $91 million from a museum in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

Two major paintings by the artists Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti have been saved for the nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme and will be permanently allocated to the Ashmolean Museum.

Police reported that Pablo Picasso's paintings were thieved. Two painter's works worth millions of dollars were stolen from a Swiss exhibition.

The Museum of Fine Arts has filed a federal lawsuit to retain ownership of a 1913 oil painting sold during the Nazi occupation of Austria.

Chemists in Italy are reporting “a real breakthrough” in technology for cleaning and conserving priceless oil paintings, marble sculptures and other works of art in an article in the Aug. 14 issue of ACS’ Langmuir, a bi-weekly journal.

As from today, the three oil paintings from the private collection can also be seen in the Dalí Foundation’s on-line Catalogue Raisonné, thus fulfilling one of the main objectives of the Gala-Salvador Foundation, consisting in cataloguing the artist’s entire production, a task being carried out by the Centre for Dalinian Studies.

Spanish artist Theo depicts the mystery of mathematics and the seemingly endless expansion of fractals in oil paintings on display at the Exploratorium from September 14, 2007 - January 7, 2008.