1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (306+ words) There is a giant stew pot in a small lake in the center of The Hague. Floating in the water in front of the prestigious Mauritshuis museum, home to the "Girl with a Pearl Earring," the 7-meter-tall (23-foot) pan is…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (340+ words) The 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066, will be displayed flat for the first time when it goes on display in London in September, the British Museum said. The 68-meter-long (224-foot-long) tapestry has been moved…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (291+ words) A spiral segment of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase sold for more "than $500, 000 at auction in Paris on Thursday. The buyer, who was in the "auction room, became the "owner of a 14-step section of staircase that stands nearly 3 meters…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (782+ words) The oldest bridge in Paris looked Thursday as if it had been swallowed by a mountain. The transformation is the work of JR, the street artist known as the "French Banksy," who this week began inflating a giant artificial "cave…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (663+ words) The Venice Biennale, often described as the Olympics of the art world, has long served as more than an exhibition. It acts as a cultural barometer a place where shifts in aesthetics, politics, technology and collective anxiety begin to surface…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (436+ words) As Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill was known for his stirring speeches, but a new London exhibition explores another side to his creativity " as a passionate and prolific artist. The exhibition opening Saturday at the Wallace Collection will be the…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (388+ words) And yet, amid all this futuristic anti-aging discourse dominated by laboratories, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, wellness industries and biohacking culture, a remarkably poetic question has emerged from an unexpected place: What if art helps keep us young? At first glance, this…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (404+ words) France said Monday that it had selected an international team of architects to transform the Louvre, which has been hit by a litany of problems including a $100 million jewelry robbery. The "Louvre-New Renaissance" overhaul, President Emmanuel Macron's signature project announced…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (315+ words) A Jackson Pollock painting sold for a record $181. 2 million on Monday at Christie's in New York, leading a blockbuster day at the auction house. With its black drips of paint accented by touches of red on a huge canvas spanning…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (368+ words) The artworks and architectural interventions created for the event are designed not merely to be exhibited, but to invite visitors into a new relationship with the spirit of the space itself. Installations spread across various parts of the city make…...