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What lies beneath: The weird and wonderful things lurking in Britain's museum basements
From radioactive rocks to great white sharks, and a dolphin called Boris, the things stored in Britain's museum basements ...
This was once the priciest home for sale in the US asking a sky-high $250M — and now it’s back on the market
The unsold Los Angeles megamansion that Conrad Hilton and David Murdock have both called home just got a price boost. The Bel ...
How Alice Walton, the richest woman in the world, spends her fortune
Though the Walton family is largely quite private, it is known that Alice Walton spends her fortune on things varying from ...
Trump and the Fate of the Government’s Massive Art Collection
With a cult of cost-chainsawing threatening every facet of the US government, what might become of the tens of thousands of ...
B&B at £3,000 a night and whisky at £10,000 a dram...but where else could you have a singalong with showbiz royalty and enjoy your afternoon tea sitting under a Picass…
In Bertie's Whisky Bar I have in my hands an open bottle of US prohibition-era Laphroaig distilled on the Isle of Islay more ...
A 1954 MF Husain painting has surpassed Amrita Sher-Gil's Rs 61.8 Crore The Story Teller to become India’s most expensive artwork
The sale nearly doubles the previous record-holder of the title, Amrita Sher-Gil's 1937 The Story Teller, which was sold for ...
MF Husain’s Gram Yatra is the most expensive modern Indian artwork sold at auction for Rs 119 crore
MF Husain's mural-sized painting, Untitled (Gram Yatra), has set a new auction record for modern Indian art. Originally ...
Observer12d
A Collector’s Guide to Art Authentication and Avoiding Costly Mistakes
Experts in an artist’s work can come to different conclusions, and catalogues raisonnés are contested more often than you ...
The Australian gallery that made art fun turns 20
Sullivan+Strumpf co-founders Ursula Sulllivan and Joanna Strumpf have been turning the gallery scene on its head since their ...
How Picasso became the ultimate prize for China’s new collectors
In recent years, major works have gone to private buyers in Asia — a new exhibition puts the artist’s relationship with the ...
Come together: Fine Art lovers look to revive market fortunes at TEFAF Maastricht
Dubbed the greatest art fair in the world, Tefaf, aka, the European Fine Arts Fair, in the charming history laden city of Maastricht is this week home to 273 galleries displaying over 7,000 years of ...
The Indian Express15d
Top 10 most expensive paintings in the world—no, it’s not Mona Lisa
10 Most Expensive Paintings in the World 2024: Art has long been a valued expression of human culture, serving as a medium for emotions, stories and traditions. However, art isn’t just about ...