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This day in history, May 30: From Joan of Arc's execution to the first Indy 500, women's pro baseball league debut and Mariner 9's launch to MarsThis day in history, May 30, has witnessed some of the world's most significant political, military, scientific and cultural developments. ...- In 1940, a boy chased his dog into a tree hole and discovered a hidden cave containing 17,000-year-old paintings that stunned the worldDiscovered in 1940 by a teenager in France, the Lascaux Cave Paintings, a breathtaking collection of prehistoric art, were sealed for mille...
- March 28 in world history: From renaming of Constantinople to passing of Virginia WoolfOn March 28, 1930, Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul, reflecting Turkey's modernizing reforms. The day also marks significant ...
- Fashion designer Rahul Mishra awarded Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des LettresFashion designer Rahul Mishra has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a prestigious honor from the French govern...
- Johnny Depp to direct biopic on 'Modi', Al Pacino to co-produce. All you may want to knowActor Johnny Depp will be directing a film after more than two decades of his first directorial. Titled ‘Modi’, it will be based on an arti...
- How 'invisible' Leon, older brother of Claude Monet, played a key role in French painter's life & artThe exhibit dispels a long-held view that Claude and his older brother were estranged.
- Italo Bettiol, creator of French children's animated series 'Chapi Chapo' dies at 96The main characters were a girl in red named Chapi and a boy in blue named Chapo.
- Painting by Francis Picabia sold for $11 mn at auction, reveals Sotheby's'Pavonia', painted in 1929, was among several works by surrealists that the auction house sold.
- Google celebrates French painter Rosa Bonheur with an artsy doodle on her 200th birth anniversaryBonheur earned the reputation as an animal painter and sculptor in the 1840s.
- Street photography pioneer Sabine Weiss, who chronicled social change with unique gaze for eight decades, dies at 97Weiss said that she had wanted to immortalise people in her photos.
- A rare self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold for almost $35 million at New York auction'Diego y yo' is emblematic of Kahlo's self-portraits, known for their intense and enigmatic gaze.
- Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' copy fetches over $242K at Paris auctionDating back to around 1600, the copy looks strikingly similar to the original.
- Rare Gian Lorenzo Bernini drawing to go on sale in France, expected to fetch over € 30KThe work had previously been wrongly attributed to French Baroque painter Pierre Puget.
- Nazi-looted French painting put on display in search for rightful ownerThe small untitled artwork by French painter Nicolas Rousseau is back in France.
- Modernist artist Sonia Delaunay's drawings to go under the hammer in ParisThe 88 drawings and small gouaches trace the development of the Russian artist's work from 1920s to 1970s.
- Letter written by Van Gogh, Gauguin talking about their brothel visits sells for $236K at auctionThe letter also mentions how they wanted to revive modern art and set up an "association of painters".
- Harlequin Head, Landscape with Horses: Five notable art forgeries from around the worldIn June 2011, news of a massive art fraud by a German group of forgers came to light.
- Lot of scenarios can play out before Rio: Rohan BopannaSania Mirza at the Rio Olympics, contender Rohan Bopanna says his sole focus now is to maintain his top-10 ranking till the French Open in ...
- Family sues foundation over Guggenheim legacyFrom one angle, it is just a family spat: Guggenheim v Guggenheim. Looked at another way, it is a quarrel which sprawls across the western ...
- Google Doodle honours daguerreotype inventorThe photo shows 5 members where the 'G' & 'O' in the Google name depict the father and the mother and the three letters - 'O','O' & 'E' - t...
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