A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. Marlene Dumas’ 1997 painting “Miss January” recently ...

There’s an old etymological folk tale that claims the phrase painting the town red—meaning “to have a boisterously (or even violently) good time”—alludes to an actual event from the ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

An Iraqi man, Aqil Fakhr al-Din, 50, was killed and partially devoured by his pet lion in Kufa last Thursday, just days after puchasing the animal to tame it. The incident has shaken the Al ...

Cape Town – Twenty-four years … it’s a lot of water under rugby’s bridge. The game has changed enormously in the period since the Transvaal provincial team of 1993 and Lions franchise outfit of 2017 – ...

Lion Electric opened its sprawling 900,000-square-foot plant near Joliet in 2023, touting the potential for 1,400 new jobs. The Quebec-based electric school bus maker found eager customers in ...

Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city of York in the United Kingdom.

A 15-year-old Nigerian has set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest art canvas in a bid to raise awareness for autism. Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke, who is autistic, set the record in ...

A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child.