The John Randle Centre for Yoruba History and Culture is a bold and colorful challenge to traditional ideas of a what a ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...

The exhibition features works from important institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and private ...

Sudan’s army has reclaimed the Presidential Palace in the capital, Khartoum, in a significant victory over a rampaging militia that controls swaths of the war-torn country. The Sudanese Armed ...

Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fridays at 9pm on BBC Radio 4. Presented by ...

Today an English Heritage site, the many-layered Eltham Palace estate includes one of the UK's best-preserved examples of art deco interior design – a house built for the wealthy Stephen and ...

October 16, 2024 • This episode, it's another Funny You Should Ask with a local comedian dedicated to his craft and a champion for other local comics, Alex Zee!

A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace was convicted Tuesday along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art insured for more than $6 million.

The painting was by the now relatively unknown Portuguese artist Rogério Ribeiro, but it set the businessman on a path to collecting some of the biggest names in Modern and contemporary art ...

It has stood in the Palace of Arts since its opening and the figures lost their arms when they were shoehorned out in 1992. Found in a garden, it was restored and returned. The art is not all ...

It was a crime that intrigued art lovers, delighted the press and coined countless potty-themed puns. Now, the BBC has gained exclusive behind-the-scenes access to staff at Blenheim Palace to ...

The land was being inspected and groomed for Russia’s latest and greatest monument, the Palace of the Soviets, which, when completed (perhaps in 1937), will be the world’s largest and tallest ...