Arts & Culture

Bay Psalm Book: First book printed in America expected to fetch $30 million

The Bay Psalm Book - the first book printed in America - is expected to fetch up to $30 million…

12 years ago

Princie Diamond: world’s top pink diamond sold for $39.3 million at New York auction

Princie, one of the largest pink diamonds in the world, has been sold at Christie’s auction in New York for…

12 years ago

Pulitzer Prize 2013: Adam Johnson wins fiction prize for North Korea novel The Orphan Master’s Son

Author Adam Johnson has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master's…

12 years ago

Pope John Paul II giant statue to be unveiled in Poland

A giant statue of Pope John Paul II is to be unveiled on a hill above the city of Czestochowa…

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Maria Tallchief, New York prima ballerina, dies at 88

Maria Tallchief, one of America's first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as The Nutcracker and Firebird,…

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Hopi tribe masks auction goes ahead in Paris

An auction of masks originating from Native American Hopi tribe in Arizona has begun in Paris, after a legal challenge…

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Louvre closed due to pickpockets

The Louvre Museum in Paris did not open on Wednesday due to a strike organized by staff protesting over pickpockets.…

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Metropolitan Museum of Art receives $1 billion Cubist art donation from Leonard Lauder

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a $1 billion donation of Cubist art from Estee Lauder…

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Pablo Neruda remains to be exhumed in murder probe

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s remains are to be exhumed, forensic experts have announced. Chilean authorities want to establish whether Pablo…

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Movie Star News Collection: The largest collection of old Hollywood photography on auction at Guernsey’s

Movie Star News Collection, one of the largest collections of old Hollywood photographs, has been gone up for auction this…

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