11/12/2019. Spetchley Park, the glory that is one of Britain’s great Regency houses, is set to reveal for the very first time a whole sequence of fascinating stories from its long and eventful past. On 11 December 2019, <a href="http://www.sothebys.com" tar...

11/12/2019. Stephen Dixon, whose hyper-realistic novels and short stories reflected his fascination with personal loss, sex, heartbreak, disaster, marriage and old age, died Wednesday at a hospice in Towson, Maryland. He was 83. His daughter Sophia Dixon Fryd...

11/12/2019. Lyon & Turnbull’s MODERN MADE auction in London on November 14 will turn the spotlight on the West Cornwall fishing town that became a centre for 20th century British art. It was in ...

11/13/2019. Poland has complained to Netflix that a Holocaust documentary series on Nazi German death camps "rewrites history" by featuring an "incorrect" map. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the popular US streaming and production website to corr...

11/13/2019. With the exhibition “The Ephrussis. Travel in Time,” the Jewish Museum Vienna follows the traces of Edmund de Waal’s bestseller The Hare with the Amber Eyes, and tells the story of the fa...

11/14/2019. House Lessans, an exquisitely simple home in County Down designed by McGonigle McGrath, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2019. The prestigious annual award is given by the Royal Institute of ...

11/14/2019. For the first time, all 100 photographs in acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist Janaina Tschäpe’s series 100 Little Deaths are on view together. Through January 20, 2020, the work can be seen at the Natio...

11/14/2019. At just a few inches high, this extraordinary Victorian creation is among the most prized pieces of ceramics in Britain today and is expected to sell for up to £50,000 at auction on November 27 at <a href="https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/" target=...

11/14/2019. With a model of the Pakistani villa where he lived and a video of Barack Obama explaining his hesitancy about approving the raid, a new exhibition details the operation that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. "Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden...

11/14/2019. Johannes Vermeer’s “Study of a Young Woman.” Peter Paul Rubens’ self-portrait with his family. Jacques Louis David’s portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife. These paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s...

11/15/2019. Thirty years ago last week, the Berlin Wall came down, a surprise event that soon brought the rest of Soviet-style communism down with it. But a few days before the anniversary of that epochal moment, a crowd gathered in a Greenwich Village galler...

11/15/2019. Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, who won Oscars for "Schindler's List" and "Gladiator", died Thursday in Zagreb aged 87, state-run HINA news agency reported. Lustig was born into a Croatian Jewish family in the eastern ...

11/15/2019. “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” begins Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art,” followed by a recounting of her losses, which include “three loved houses.” Now Key West Literary Seminar, a literature non...

11/15/2019. Works by the most celebrated artists of the Modern era will be offered in the 6 December auction: Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Cézanne and Renoir are among the modern masters represented. "Nymphs" by Henri Matisse is an entrancing charcoal drawing f...

11/15/2019. From 15 November 2019 to 9 February 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich focuses on an eventful period in the history of photography. Twenty positions from Switzerland and elsewhere reveal how photography mo...