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Treasures of the temple raiders return home to Cambodia
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 6 days ago
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Buddhist monks bearing flowers chanted blessings and sprinkled sacred water...Four decades after they were snapped from their pedestals in a jungle temple and secretly shipped out of the country against the backdrop of civil war, a pair of 10th
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Creations of Faulkner, Beckett and Conrad's up at auction in New York
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
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Manuscripts, letters and drawings of the writers William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett and Joseph Conrad start to go on auction in New York next week, in a rare chance to snap up their belongings. Sotheby's has classed Tuesday's event in the Big Apple as
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San Francisco General Hospital Foundation Receives $1,122,500 Through Bank of America Art Auction
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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Bank of America as a result of an art auction of works from the company's own collection held last night, as well as proceeds from a May sales event with Sotheby's in New York City. San Francisco's only Level-1 Trauma Center; public health vigilance;
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Works of Husain, Pakistani artists to be auctioned at Sotheby's
New Delhi :: India | 12 days ago
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Husain, and Pakistani painters will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London for its Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale June 11. The auction will also feature a number of important works by Indian artists like F.N...Husain's 1961 oil on
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Mermaids seen due east as rare maps go on sale
New York City :: NY :: USA | 16 days ago
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Suggested Topics One of the world's rarest atlases will go on sale in London next weekend and is expected to fetch over £500,000. The full-colour Speculum Orbis Terrarum was produced in 1593 by the Belgian cartographer, Gerard De Jode. One of only
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Hundreds of millions gone! Dotcom pioneer blows fortune on extravagant mansions, failed hotels, and fine art
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
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Over in San Francisco, Minor's 2007 $22 million purchase of a replica Versailles mansion in the city's posh Presidio Heights also ended in heartache. Minor had big intentions of restoring the local and national landmark to its original grandeur, but
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Dreyfus letter fetches nearly $500,000 at Paris auction
Paris :: France | 19 days ago
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A letter handwritten by Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish soldier who was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, was sold at auction for nearly half a million dollars. The sale went through even after a Dreyfus heir urged the seller to give the letter
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U.S. auction to sell “unknown” 1758 document on proposed French Canada exodus to Louisiana
Quebec :: Canada | 19 days ago
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A New York auction house has revealed the discovery of a previously unknown document from a pivotal moment in Canadian history a hand-written report detailing an obscure and startling December 1758 proposal by an unnamed French official to relocate
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A glimpse behind the Iron Curtain: Auctioned photographs by underground artists provide a rare snapshot of everyday life in Communist Russia
Moscow :: Russia | 20 days ago
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28 May 2013 0 shares 0 View comments Stifled by censorship and with western culture shrouded by an Iron Curtain, Soviet photography can probably be described as less than avant garde for the majority of the 20th century. But 'underground'
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Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | 26 days ago
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The First Apple, Fetching Prices That May Crash the System Andrew Burton/Getty Images An Apple l on display at Sotheby's last year in New York. Published: May 23, 2013 More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer
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