Five men from a Berlin family were sentenced to prison yesterday for committing a spectacular theft of priceless Baroque jewels from the historic Green Vault in Dresden three and a …
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Football champion Malcolm Jenkins on the sport of art Collects and scores his first Basquiat
Throughout the 2010s, Malcolm Jenkins established himself as one of football’s greatest defensive players. He won two Super Bowl championships during his 13-year NFL career, first in New Orleans when …
An 8-year-old schoolgirl found a rare Stone Age dagger at a playground in Norway
Someone dropped their dagger in Norway at the end of the Stone Age. More than three millennia later, eight-year-old Elise took it over. A announcement by the county of Vestland, …
Sotheby’s faces ‘more sober’ market with modern art marathon and wins $427m
A shimmering landscape by Gustav Klimt fetched $53.2 million at Sotheby’s on May 16, leading a three-hour nightly bidding marathon that kept turning with last-minute withdrawals, additional irrevocable bids and …
Sotheby’s double sales in New York on Tuesday (May 16) totaled $363.9 million ($427 million with fees), with works by Gustav Klimt and Rene Magritte fetching the highest prices. The …
New York Councilor Lisa Schiff Reportedly Shuts Down Amid $2 Million Lawsuit From Clients
Prominent art adviser Lisa Schiff is said to have closed her business, SFA Advisory, after long-time clients accused her of using sales proceeds to defraud them as part of a …
Iconic Mugler Muse Connie Girl attends final days of dazzling designer retrospective at Brooklyn Museum
Touch Nothing is a column in which William Van Meter takes a fabulous person into a remarkable exhibit to talk about the show and his ongoing projects. It was a …
Researchers have found 5,000-year-old clay figurines mysteriously hidden behind boar tusks in a Ukrainian cave
Verteba Cave in Ukraine has recently provided ambiguous but promising information about the time of the dawn of agriculture in Eastern Europe, around 5,000 years ago. Led by Sokhatskyi Mykhailo, …
Who remembers playing Exquisite Corpse as an icebreaker during summer camp crafts or the first day of elementary school? You may not remember it by name, but it’s the group …
Left: Rembrandt van Rijn, “Self-Portrait in Bonnet, Wide Eyes and Open Mouth” (1630), etching (via Staedel Museum); right: Tattoo by Timothy Englisch, design by Rupa van Tenglingen (photo courtesy of …