Beginning March 31, 2017, China is embarking on a deliberate, nine-month sequential procedure to shut down its ivory industry. In so doing, it is dismantling the world’s most important marketplace for ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

A centennial show in Paris reveals how a distinctly French esthetic became a worldwide language of modern luxury.

Ever since the digital revolution, the world has been stuck in a race, and everyone is obsessed with quickness and quick results. In all this chaos, it seems like "beauty" has taken a backseat, and ...

This exhibition invites visitors to experience the French art de vivre of the aristocratic and bourgeois elites on the eve of ...

Many critical military conflicts never get much publicity. Sometimes it's because they involve espionage, often it's because the media never really gets interested. Here are ten in alphabetical order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine with engraved rows of crosses and dots [University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen] The history ...

Researchers have found patterns of meaning etched in lines, notches, dots and crosses on ancient objects, including mammoth tusks dating as far back as 45,000 years, within caves in Germany.

Look closer and you notice the hand-cut dovetails. Look even closer and you see the secondary wood choices that indicate ...

Famille verte” is a term collectors use for a popular style of Chinese porcelain. If you speak French — the term was coined by French collector Albert Jacquemart in the 1860s — you know it means ...

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