The ultimate collector's items, Fabergé's fabled gemstone-studded Easter eggs are considered the pinnacle of luxury. Over 100 years since the House of Fabergé was shut down by Bolshevik ...

Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

Harvard did the right thing in standing up to Trump. Too bad the university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Thankfully, we have not stumbled into a psycho’s lair. This is the home workshop of Mariano Di Tella, a humble toolmaker who ...

an Art Nouveau villa given by Czar Nicholas II to his ballet-star mistress and seized by Bolsheviks in March 1917. I’d arranged ahead of time for a private tour of the elegant block-long villa ...

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance is at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, from 11 April to 23 November 2025.

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...

Barnett Newman’s 1946 painting Pagan Void stares you down at the start of “L’Âge atomique: Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire” (The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History), a visual tour ...

Peter Sheehy, a history teacher at the Horace Mann School, sat in his bedroom, trolling the Internet. It was the fall of 2006, shortly after lunch on a Saturday afternoon. The school year had just ...

As a power struggle ensues between a provisional government and Bolshevik revolutionaries, Nicholas and his family are held, to be shot in July 1918. 130 YEARS AGO: Hot Stuff Maine teenager ...

What are the implications of the US president’s attempts to gut and transform arts organisations? Plus, discussions about the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025 and works by two leading ...