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Italian teenagers discover a 1,800-year-old Roman luxury villa hiding beneath their high school gymCurious students in Rome uncovered a stunning 1,800-year-old Roman villa under their school gym. Archaeologists confirmed the find, reveali...
A $33 trillion economy, now it's penniless!Donald Trump has called for the discontinuation of the U.S. penny due to its high production cost outweighing its face value. This decision...
California wildfires: From Adam Brody to Paris Hilton, here are celebrities who lost homes in LA fireWildfires in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades forced celebrities like Mark Hamill and Mandy Moore to evacuate. Firefighters are battling unco...
Follow the Silk RoadThe British Museum in London is hosting an exhibition on the Silk Roads from Sep 23 to Feb 23, 2025. A related 2016 Getty podcast features ...
Roman museum houses stolen artefactsThe "Museum for Rescued Art" is housed in a spectacular hall within the majestic Diocletian Baths, ancient Rome's largest bath complex.
Dream jobs in world of culture can pay well too: A look at salaries & perks of prominent museum leadersThe compensation and benefits of top executives at prominent arts institutions in the United States have been scrutinized. Many leaders rec...
British gallery raises 25 mn pounds to keep Joshua Reynold's 1776 paintingThe painting will also exhibited "periodically" in the United States from 2026.
Wealth, vanity & oil: New book sheds light on dramatic calamities that befell aristocratic Getty family'Growing Up Getty' Shakes the Dust Off a Family's Aristocratic Name.
Churchill painting from Onassis superyacht fetches $1.85 mn at New York auctionThe painting titled 'The Moat, Breccles' is a signed 1921 oil landscape.
Sir Winston Churchill's 1921 oil painting from Onassis superyacht may fetch $2 mn at New York auctionThis landscape could appeal to both history and celebrity buffs.
Oxford comma row: Talk of making small change with BrexitUK’s comma-morative coin sparks literary controversy
Coming together for art! Artefacts from the British museum soon to be in Mumbai & Delhi'India and the World: A History in Nine Stories' will showcase works of art from the Indian Subcontinent along with iconic pieces from the ...
Tycoons who doubled their fortunes with acts of miserlinessIn the billionaire's world of high stakes and freshly-minted money, frugality can easily be mistaken for stinginess.
Why renting makes sense, at least in BengaluruFrom a purely financial angle, Bengalureans, primarily the floating population which changes job and city every three to four years, are ju...
Sotheby’s two-days of Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art sales brought in £215.8 millionSotheby’s two-days of Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art sales, which brought a total of £215.8 million.
- Bloomsbury acquires Wisden
Bloomsbury, the publisher that brought out the J K Rowling's Harry Potter series in the market, has bought Wisden, in a move to strengthen ...
- Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury buys Wisden cricketers' almanack
Bloomsbury wants to capitalise on cricket's booming popularity, particularly in India. Commodities barons and their sports assets | Diego M...
- Drop in investment income hurting LA arts institutions
Like homeowners and stockholders, arts organizations are feeling the pinch from the faltering economy.
- Art smuggler offers mystery masterpiece to Italy in bid to cut jail term
A convicted antiquities smuggler has offered to return a previously unknown ancient masterpiece known as Object X to Italy in exchange for ...
- Oil cos hunger for more, plan major boost in E&P spend
American oilman J Paul Getty was bang on target - when he said, "The meek shall inherit the earth but not its mineral rights".