As the art industry reels from the havoc wreaked by Covid-19, Philip Sutton RA, a 92-year-old artist shielding in a residential home, takes matters into his…
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A portray of Mary Magdalene lately attributed to Leonardo da Vinci’s collaborator and lover Gian Giacomo Caprotti, often known as Salaì, offered on the Paris public…
Over a century ago, Suzanne Valadon began painting lively nude portraits of sensual and self-assured women, with full, curvy bodies and pubic hair. Occasionally, she painted…
Less than a week after enrapturing audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony, America’s youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman has signed with one of the world’s biggest modeling…
The only painting Winston Churchill painted during World War II is hitting the auction block—and it has a very unlikely consignor. The work, which the former…
Archeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold-tongue amulet meant to let the dead person “speak” — though hopefully not curse — in the afterlife. Mummy curses…
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered three textile scraps containing purple dye dating to around 1000 BC, when King David is said to have ruled the area…
One of the greatest portraits ever painted by Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli sold on January 28 at Sotheby’s New York for a record $92.2 million. In a sale…
From a dinosaur fossil set to a huge Roman Colosseum model, LEGO sets have come a long way since the plastic brick houses of the ‘50s. Kids and adults…
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world’s oldest-known representational artwork: three wild pigs painted deep in a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at…