Ida Chagall’s heroic effort to salvage her father’s work from being lost to the war helped secure the Jewish artist’s legacy.

Formidable women across centuries and continents have wielded influence through their impassioned support of art and culture.

Put a bird on it!

Divine comedy's illustrations: Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a French artist, illustrator and sculptor. In Italy, he gained endless fame because of his beautiful illustrations of Dante’s Divina Commedia.

Attitudes toward returning cultural artifacts, often looted during colonization, are changing. In countries like France, Germany and Belgium, the talk has turned to restitution and repatriation.

A series of sketches and hand prints made by Leonardo Da Vinci, and hidden underneath one of his most famous paintings for more than 500 years, have been revealed for the first time.

The Law of Time 441 Time Cube / #Blockchain cube as the cosmic key to the cosmic cube that is the source geometric shape for all material form. The Mayan 13 Moon calendar is more accurate than our calendar today: "A clock does not measure time. "A clock measures increments of space which, projected as increments of time, are valued (valorized) into monetary units" // "The solution we propose begins with a time - stamp server" Satoshi Nakamoto // The Law of Time 441 Time Cube http://sawconcepts.com/index/id63.html

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.

Bob Ross painted more than 1,000 landscapes for his television show — so why are they so hard to find? Solving one of the internet’s favorite little mysteries.

This bookstore in Shanghai will make you feel like you've entered an alternate universe with stairs on the ceiling.

Acrylics on Canvas - 100 * 70 cm

Pearls have always been in a league of their own. As souvenirs from the depths of New World waters in the 15th century, they were simply something diamonds, emeralds, and rubies could never be: alive.

It was a flourishing trade in human flesh. A quest headed by art suppliers so ruthless in seeking out the perfect pigment, that it makes Dorian Grey's creep-level look like amateur hour. It was the business of making "Mummy Brown," a paint colour.

50 * 70 cm - acrylics on canvas

Last year, a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him. How did they get there?

AI art has a long history that is often overlooked

You've got to be kidding me.

If you had to sit still for hours, you might not be able to muster a genuine smile either.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life...