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Highlights the art exhibition "Mirrors to the Past: Ancient Greece and Avant-Garde America," at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Art pieces included in the exhibition; Theme of the show; Artists featured in the exhibition; History of ancient Greek and Avant-Garde arts.

This article discusses the ownership history of famous art pieces. The article cites an ancient statue of Apollo the Lizard Slayer as an art piece with a dubious history, as researched by Lebanese art gallery owners HIcham and Ali Aboutaam. The article profiles the Aboutaam brothers as antique dealers who are rigorous in their research into the history of art pieces.

The article looks at how questions of art ownership are affecting the museum world. A brief history of art theft by armies and foreign governments is presented. The author reviews how their have been a number of high-level controversies involving who owns various ancient artifacts and works of art. The author reviews his personal history with the issue. INSET: Is It All Loot? Tackling The Antiquities Problem.

Can you name three female artists? The people asked that question outside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art can't get much beyond Frida You-Know-Who-I-Mean. That's old, sad news to Lynn Hershman Leeson, the director of ''!Women Art Revolution'' -- ''!W.A.R.'' -- a documentary history of the feminist art movement. Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, Nancy Spero, Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann (that's five for next time you're asked) are just some of the artists interviewed by Ms. Hershman Leeson, who in the mid-1960s, a young artist herself, borrowed a camera and started shooting the friends and colleagues who passed through her living room in Berkeley, Calif. She continued off and on over the years, wherever she could. (Judy Chicago holds forth in a college bathroom at one point.) These interviews form the backbone of ''!W.A.R.,'' and like the film, they're passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned. They'd make you nostalgic for the struggle except, as many point out, the struggle continues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A stray fingerprint is not something you generally want to find on a valuable artwork -- unless Leonardo da Vinci left it there. An art historian and a forensic art expert are among those saying that a fingerprint detected in a portrait, above, shows that it is the work of Leonardo, and not an early-19th-century German work as previously categorized, Antiques Trade Gazette reported. The work -- a chalk, pen and ink portrait on vellum -- was sold in 2007 for about $19,000 to a collector who took it to Martin Kemp, an emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University. Mr. Kemp, with the help of the forensic analyst Peter Paul Biro, found a fingerprint near the top of the work that they say is ''highly comparable'' to one found on Leonardo's painting of St. Jerome in the Vatican. A chalk palm print in the neck of the portrait's subject, believed to be the daughter of a 15th-century Milanese duke, is another piece of evidence the experts say supports the case that the work is by Leonardo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What are the arts worth? In straitened times it's easy to mistake cost for value. You might also say it's the difference between cash and culture, the price of something and what's ultimately priceless. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Offers a look at the campaign of United States Senator Christopher J. Dodd to correct the lack of images of women and members of minorities in the nation's Capitol building. Promotion of diversity; Dodd's position on the Senate Committee on Art; Reference to the book "Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860," by Vivien Green Fryd; Discussion of political correctness versus accurate history; Search for art pieces of women and minorities; Dispute over the creation of the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol Dome.

Presents notable figures in arts, who will be turning 50 in 1996. Effect on the art industry.

Presents a art review on `Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens From the Idemitsu Museum of Arts'. History of the piece.