In 1890, Russian gold miners reached into a peat bog and found something that rewrote everything we thought we knew about prehistoric humansMiners in Russia's Ural Mountains discovered the Shigir Idol in 1890. This ancient wooden monument is over 11,000 years old, predating Ston...
19 May, 2026, 03.05 PM IST
In 1929, a farmer was clearing an irrigation ditch in Sichuan, and the jade he pulled from the mud revealed a forgotten Bronze Age civilizationA fortuitous accident transformed the life of a farmer in Sichuan Province in 1929 when he uncovered jade, leading to the remarkable discov...
15 May, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
‘I am obsessed with decor and interiors’: Tara Sutaria’s Mumbai home is all about minimalism with Parsi and European charm.Actor Tara Sutaria, who will next be seen in Toxic with Kannada star Yash, offers a glimpse into her minimalist yet elegant Mumbai home, bl...
14 Apr, 2026, 05.18 PM IST
The legacy of a trader who turned art collectorAfter a long and successful innings on Wall Street, Robert E Mnuchin had a second career as a collector
20 Jan, 2026, 12.49 PM IST
A peek inside Rome's most exclusive tourist siteOnly a small number of visitors ever see Rome’s Colonna Palace, a vast private estate filled with centuries-old art and still home to the C...
16 Nov, 2025, 12.12 PM IST
Haute House: Karl Lagerfeld's luxurious, 8-room Parisian home fetches $10 mn at auction.Lagerfeld found the eight-room apartment, which is on the third floor of a 17th-century building and overlooks the Seine and the Tuileries...
07 Apr, 2024, 09.27 PM IST
Award-winning cartoonist George Booth passes away at 96He worked for the popular weekly magazine The New Yorker.
15 Nov, 2022, 06.07 PM IST
Foreign and expat families' love for Indian arts is growing by the dayThe pandemic-era economy is a strange beast where not everyone is on the losing side, and those on the winning side are looking to spend. S...
04 Oct, 2020, 09.34 AM IST
New-age yet functional: How power décor motivates employees, and informal rooms spark imaginationThe startup boom and rise of co-working spaces have led to this trend.
13 Aug, 2018, 10.16 AM IST
Travelling to Greece? Here's the ultimate guide for youStep back into the ancient world and marvel at the remnants that continue to withstand the test of time.
14 May, 2017, 12.47 PM IST
Integrated art venture Insignia Art Collect gets Rs 3.5 crore from DSG Consumer PartnersCofounded by Nikhil Girdhar, Pooja Mishra and Jyotsna Sharma, the company aims to sell art created by upcoming artists at affordable prices...
16 Feb, 2017, 10.22 AM IST
Trusting sixth sense: When art lover Ashish Vohra bought a painting for Rs 20,000The hotelier paid the small amount for Raja Ravi Varma's prints.
20 Dec, 2016, 05.54 PM IST
Meet the 29-year-old running $7 billion for wealthy clientsMinesh Bhatt graduated during the height of the financial crisis and started working for free at UBS, where he is a director now.
06 Jan, 2016, 09.25 AM IST
Playboy to stop publishing nude from its magazineThe magazine, a pioneer of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, will stop publishing images of naked ...
14 Oct, 2015, 05.40 AM IST
Robert De Niro, Usher honoured at Gordon Parks GalaHollywood veteran Robert De Niro and singer Usher were honoured for their contribution to the arts at a charity gala in New York City.
05 Jun, 2015, 06.33 PM IST
Recent Christie's art auction may have woken up the dead marketIndia Art Fair founder believes the recent Christie’s auction may have woken up a dead market, others aren’t too sure
25 Jan, 2014, 02.37 AM IST
- Pepsico CEO comes calling to India for biz, vacation
Within months of taking over as CEO of global soft drink giant PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi is all set to transact business in India, a country of ...
17 Dec, 2006, 02.30 PM IST