The Austrian artist’s paintings are relatively rare “trophy pictures”, and prices have rocketed over the past 50 years ...

From billion-dollar yachts to diamond watches and rare art, explore 15 of the most expensive things ever purchased by the ...

Their faces feel timeless — fixed in textbooks, gallery paintings, and statues — yet history often makes us forget they were ...

With Sotheby's new record for the highest total at a London auction, it would seem that the sky is indeed the limit where the ...

No one arrived at the title “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not” by accident. When the good-looking, privileged and deliberately smarmy “Saturday Night Live” star was introducing the show’s original ...

Hans Eworth's 1562 portrait of Thomas Howard, Fourth Duke of Norfolk, fetched $4.2 million at auction. Sotheby's A 16th-century painting of an English duke sold for $4.2 million last week, making it ...

“Brocken Spectre and Glory: Portrait of Temple Grandin” by David Lenz, oil on canvas, 2022. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired by the Marc Pachter Commissioning Fund and an ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...

Gustav Klimt's legacy just got a little greener. After all, the symbolist artist's painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (or Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer in English) was sold for $236.4 million, with ...

The film industry offers an endless catalog of biopics, but a select few achieve significance beyond mere celebrity tribute, instead serving as profound historical depictions. These fascinating movies ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presented the 2025 Portrait of a Nation Awards Saturday, Nov. 15, to four new honorees for their transformative contributions to American history and ...