Arts & Culture
China Stolen Artifacts: 175 People Arrested in Country’s Biggest Ever Operation
Chinese authorities have arrested 175 people in the country's biggest ever operation to recover stolen artifacts. China’s Ministry of Public Security said 1,168 cultural relics...
Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life Exhibition at New York Botanical Garden
Frida Kahlo's garden and studio have been recreated at the New York Botanical Garden. Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life is the first solo New York...
Walking Horses: Adolf Hitler’s Lost Bronze Horses Found in Germany
Walking Horses by Josef Thorak - two bronze horse statues that once stood in front of Adolf Hitler's chancellery - are among several pieces...
Piet Mondrian’s Composition No III Fetches $50.6 Million at New York Auction
Piet Mondrian’s 1929 oil painting Composition No III, with Red, Blue, Yellow and Black has sold for $50.6 million at a New York auction. The...
Top Seven $100 Million Artworks
1. Pablo Picasso, Women of Algiers - $160 million (2015) 2. Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Lucian Freud - $142m (2013) 3. Alberto Giacometti, Pointing Man...
Picasso’s Women of Algiers Becomes Most Expensive Painting to Sell at Auction
Pablo Picasso's Les Femmes d’Alger (Women of Algiers) has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction after fetching $160 million at Christie's...
Stolen Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s First Edition Found in Bogota
A signed first edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has been recovered after being stolen from a book fair in...
Garcia Marquez First Edition Stolen from Bogota Book Fair
A signed first edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has been stolen in Colombia. The book was being exhibited in a...
Maya Plisetskaya Dies of Heart Attack Aged 89
Legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya has died of a heart attack at the age of 89, Bolshoi Theatre director Vladimir Urin announces. The Russian ballet legend...
Speaking a Native Language Badly and Exhibitionism Revealed as Being Top Peeves During a Holiday
It has been found by a UK based online travel agency that there are certain things that really annoy holiday makers, particularly during couples’...
Nano Bible: World’s Smallest Bible Goes on Dispaly at Israel Museum in Jerusalem
Nano Bible - a copy of the Hebrew Bible the size of a pinhead - has gone on display at the Israel Museum in...
Jasper Johns’ Former Assistant Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail
Jasper Johns’ former assistant has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after admitting he stole artworks from the artist's studio. James Meyer, 53, confessed...
Flawless white diamond fetches $22.1 million at New York auction
A flawless white 100-carat diamond has fetched $22.1 million at Sotheby's auction house in New York. The emerald-cut diamond, originally mined by De Beers in...
Günter Grass dead: German Nobel literature prize winner dies in Luebeck at 87
German Nobel literature prize winner Günter Grass has died at the age of 87, his publisher announces. The author of The Tin Drum has passed...
Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin releases Winds of Winter chapter online
Author George R.R. Martin has released a chapter of The Winds of Winter on his website. The new chapter is part of the sixth book...
Lauren Bacall’s personal collection fetches $3.6 million at New York auction
Lauren Bacall’s collection of art, jewellery, furniture and clothing has fetched $3.64 million at two-day Bonhams auction in New York. A hand-colored etching of an...
Dutch royals to return Joris van der Haagen painting looted by Nazis
The Dutch royal family has announced it will return a painting by Joris van der Haagen from its collection thought to have been looted...
Nelson Mandela memoir: Long Walk to Freedom sequel to be published in 2016
Nelson Mandela’s memoir, a sequel to his 1995 autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, will be published in 2016. The book will be based on a...
Bardo Museum reopening delayed over security concerns
Tunisia's Bardo museum reopening after last week’s attack that killed at least 22 people has been delayed until March 29. Bardo museum had been due...
Birch cent expected to fetch at least $2 million at Baltimore auction on March 26
A copper Birch cent, minted in 1792, is up for sale in Baltimore and it’s worth an estimated $2 million, according to Stack’s Bowers...
Cervantes’ tomb found in Madrid’s Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians
Miguel de Cervantes’ tomb has been found in Madrid, nearly 400 years after his death, Spanish forensic scientists say. Scientists believe they have found the...
Mahatma Gandhi statue unveiled London’s Parliament Square
A Mahatma Gandhi's statue has been unveiled in London's Parliament Square. The unveiling of the 9ft bronze statue marks 100 years since Mahatma Gandhi returned...
6 Alternative Ways to Celebrate Easter
Traditional holidays such as Easter can be tricky territory for 21st Century families. Even if parents do not identify themselves as staunch atheists, they...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee “elder abuse” inquiry closed
The inquiry into whether author Harper Lee was pressured into publishing a To Kill A Mockingbird sequel has been closed. The Alabama Securities Commission led...
Terry Pratchett dies aged 66
British fantasy author Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "The world has lost one...
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