03/29/2019. Photography is an art and photographers are artists. Just like any other type, the art of wedding photography too requires a lot of patience to learn and master. After all, a wedding is the most important occasion for the couple-to-be and their famil...

10/17/2019. Sotheby’s announced that they will present Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection in a dedicated auction on 20 November in New York. The exceptional and rare objec...

10/21/2019. For its 150th anniversary, the American Museum of Natural History is celebrating its many historic moments, from its 1869 founding, to the 1902 discovery of the first T. rex skeleton, to the creation of the Teddy Roosevelt statue erected out front in...

10/24/2019. Police in southern France on Wednesday detained a man who had broken into a museum overnight and threatened to turn it into "hell", before admitting him to a psychiatric hospital, authorities said. The man, who had provoked a four-hour standoff w...

10/26/2019. Famous in his lifetime and for several generations after his death for his stylish and elegant paintings, Antwerp’s Jan de Beer (c. 1475 – 1527/28) created spectacular altarpieces that appealed to churches at home and abroad, copyists, patr...

10/26/2019. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was one of the greatest portrait artists of his time. While he is best known for his powerful paintings, he largely ceased painting portraits in 1907 and turned instead to charcoal drawings to satisfy portrait com...

10/31/2019. Since the Museum of Modern Art reopened this month, it has devoted its fourth-floor Studio space to a strangely wonderful, interactive installation: David Tudor’s “Rainforest V (variation 1).” Throughout the room hang about 20 mundane ...

11/01/2019. H&H Classics will sell what a unique 1965 Mercedes-Benz 190C that has covered just 7,295 miles from new and which is still with its original owner. The auction takes place on 27th November at the...

11/02/2019. A Nintendo Pokémon “Pikachu Illustrator” trainer promotional hologram trading card, graded in Mint 9 condition and given to a winner at the 1998 CoroCoro Comic illustration contest in Japan, soared to $224,250 (a new world auction record) a...

11/07/2019. Ever since 1986, when a small gathering of artists and friends first gathered at San Francisco’s Baker Beach to celebrate the summer solstice by igniting an 8-foot male effigy, the art of the Burning Man festival was not meant to be seen by the ...

11/09/2019. A rare and important silver tankard crafted around 1710 by the Hugenot silversmith Bartholomew Le Roux (N.Y., 1663-1713), made for the Van Rensselaer family and only the third known example ever discovered, is an expected headliner at <a href="http:/...

11/10/2019. An original score of two minuets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was just 16 are to be put up for auction in Paris later this month, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The asking price for the handwritten score dating from 1772 has been set a...

11/13/2019. Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, built up his relationship with the French crown with numerous diplomatic gifts, including the creation of new gardens at St-German-en-Laye laid out for Henri IV by the engineer and designer Tommaso...

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 ...

11/20/2019. An original score of two minuets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was just 16 blew past estimates at a Sotheby's auction in Paris on Monday, going under the hammer for 372,500 euros ($413,000). It was nearly double the top estimated val...