Rafi Hoq told Newsweek he was "moved" when someone online revealed the tapestry's potential origins and worth.

The compositions feel perfectly balanced, the colour exquisitely pretty: subtle contrasts of lilac-inflected greys and salmon pink in the Annunciation, one of the most popular medieval paintings ...

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Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...

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The story goes that St Brendan wasn’t so convincingly unmoved by their company as their previous bedfellow; they suggested he ...

Ciaran Cassidy’s film revisits an Irish television show that judged stay-at-home moms on budgeting and appearance. By Alissa Wilkinson Errol Morris returns to his main obsessions — evil and ...

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George W. Bush‘s post-presidency painting career has always drawn a potent combination of ridicule and fascination, but rarely has the subject of who taught him to put brush to canvas come up ...

There was a time when medieval India was considered a lesser focus in the UPSC exam ... As long as you don’t overthink, you can easily apply a simple trick—Shah Jahan for Architecture, Jahangir for ...

I must have seen them do that thousands and thousands of times, but I never once saw them break anything. It was a real skill, there was an art to it. As a boy, I used to be fascinated, standing there ...