Aerodynamic: The museum’s design is inspired by a falcon’s wing. courtesy Zayad National Museum A new mega museum is slated to open in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island in December this year. Designed by UK architectural firm Foster + Partners, the Zayad National Museum will house a Qur’an more than …
On the road: The bus will soon be a traveling museum. Karen Therese Nahra An artist from Cleveland, Ohio is transforming a classic 1947 Greyhound bus, which he saved from a Pennsylvania junkyard, into a traveling museum. Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, who is also a historian and preservationist, is tearing out the bus’s interior (in …
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A mosaic depicting an erotic bedroom scene has made its way back to Pompeii. Photo Eliano Imperato/Anadolu via Getty Images An ancient mosaic that may have been looted by a Nazi officer has returned to its home in Italy decades after being stolen. The mosaic depicts a bedroom scene and probably originated somewhere in the …
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A model walks the runway during the Chanel Metiers D’Art 2018/19 Show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 4, 2018 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) START SPREADING THE NEWS: Chanel is returning to the New York runway for the first time in seven years. The French fashion house will present its …
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Dame Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville in “Downton Abbey” Series Six. Courtesy Carnival Films/Nick Briggs via WWD BACK IN TIME: Attention all “Downton Abbey” fans who are finding it hard to say farewell to the franchise. To coincide with the release of the third and final “Downton Abbey” film in September, Bonhams is holding a farewell exhibition and auction of props, costumes …
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Security footage of unidentified agents attempting to enter the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture. Courtesy National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Agents from the Department of Homeland Security descended upon the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago on Tuesday, with at least 15 DHS vehicles arriving …
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the Jean-Pierre Bloch award ceremony of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), at the Elysee palace in Paris, on April 2, 2025. (Photo by Thibaud MORITZ / AFP) (Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Good Morning! Guggenheim Asher Associates art …
Ed Sheeran, painter. Courtesy Heni Gallery The singer Ed Sheeran has topped the charts with his singles and sold out stadiums across the world, and now he looks to expand his output to include artworks that look suspiciously like Jackson Pollock‘s drip paintings. Sheeran is now showing his all-over abstractions at Heni Gallery in London, …
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PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 10: Auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde is pictured during the sale of the Jane Birkin bag for €8.6 million euros at Sotheby’s July 10, 2025, in Paris, France. (Photo Julien Hekimian/Getty Images) Getty Images The first-ever Hermès Birkin bag sold at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday for a record-breaking €8.6 million ($10 million), with …
David Mimran. WireImage In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, Phillips, one of the world’s top auction houses, claimed that a billionaire’s son failed to pay $14.5 million for a Jackson Pollock painting that sold in New York this past November. The lawsuit, filed in the Supreme Court of New York, alleges that David Mimran, …
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