Mysterious heist of famous portrait solved 70 years later — and it was all for curtains
The painting’s disappearance from its UK estate wasn’t noticed until six years later when a duchess saw it on display at a ...
Art historian solves riddle behind theft of famous portrait
The 70-year mystery surrounding the theft of an original oil sketch by renowned Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck from a ...
Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI
A dubious “Van Gogh” has sparked a battle between technology, connoisseurs, and the high-stakes art market. What does AI, ...
Scholars call for popularizing ‘Cool China’ to bridge cultural gaps
Wukong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Three-Body Problem are presenting a "Cool China" to the world. "Having studied ...
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Oxford University team reveals famous poet's hidden work
The hidden work of poet Alfred Tennyson has been revealed by researchers at the University of Oxford. A project led by Dr Michael Sullivan, from the university's English Faculty, used a combination of ...
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A Hong Kong Picasso Show Aims to Help Viewers See Him ‘in a New Light’
Five decades since his death, and nearly 150 years since his birth, the 20th century’s most famous artist continues to dominate the international art conversation. And now, M+, a museum of ...
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Dirty jokes and sacred texts: YIVO marks 100 years of preserving Yiddish culture
Artifacts from 1,000 years of Ashkenazi Jewish life including literary transcripts, Herzl's diary, everyday notes and ...
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Of shaved heads and bald sopranos: When the White House becomes the theatre of the absurd
In absurd theatre, an unremarkable setting like a mundane living room in The Bald Soprano takes on an increasingly ...
Ed Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut who lived in Palm Beach County, was a man of the cosmos
Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.