Culture
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek sculptor Takis, whose kinetic artworks were admired at major art museums around the world in a career spanning over 70 years, [more…]
CAIRO (Reuters) - Eid Al Salwaawi, 69, paints murals of the rituals of the haj pilgrimage on the walls of a house in Cairo’s Sayeda [more…]
(Reuters) - A pair of 1972 running shoes, one of the first pairs made by Nike Inc, sold for $437,500 on Tuesday, shattering the record [more…]
ROME (Reuters) - Italian author Andrea Camilleri, who penned the acclaimed Inspector Montalbano detective novels, died on Wednesday at the age of 93, state-owned broadcaster [more…]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Move over Monet. Nike is hot on your heels. Sotheby’s in New York announced on Thursday its first-ever auction dedicated to [more…]
PARIS (Reuters) - France returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some [more…]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A masterpiece painted by Pablo Picasso that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell to fund his escape from [more…]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in New York rejected Sotheby’s bid to dismiss a $380 million lawsuit where Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev accused [more…]
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A mystery foreign buyer has snapped up a painting by Italian master Caravaggio that was discovered five years ago in a [more…]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece’s Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through [more…]
