Messel and Beaton were in Vienna together, shopping for ‘cheap baroque chairs and consoles.’) And then there’s the exquisite hand-painted-by-Messel muralling and trompe-l’oeil: fanciful Chinoiserie ...
San Francisco Art Week 2026 is back with more than 100 events that now span Wine Country to Santa Cruz, plus three new fairs across the Bay Area joining the popular Fog Design + Art fair.
Billy Loughnane broke a 21st-century record in Britain by riding 222 winners in a calendar year, surpassing Kieren Fallon's mark set in 2003. He did so at Lingfield Park Racecourse on New Year's Eve ...
Hagerty’s 2025 guide shows modern classic hot hatches are climbing in value while Jaguar leads British falls TWO much-loved modern classic cars have risen in value in 2025 – although it’s bad news for ...
Warships once experimented with blue hulls, pink cruisers, glowing decks, and even light projectors meant to make ships vanish. Today, radar and satellites make real camouflage nearly impossible—so ...
The UAE's modern racing prowess began with Jim McCaughey, a British industrialist who operated in England's Midlands before emerging on the horse-racing scene in the late 1970s. The wealth he ...
Have you noticed how easy it is to scratch the paint off modern cars? It's not just that's noticed this, as there have been fundamental changes to how paint is manufactured and applied to cars ...
A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to ...
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth ...
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...
A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...
A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction. The Austrian painter’s work Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $236 ...