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The Golden Owl Hunt was created by author Régis Hauser and artist Michel Becker (pictured).

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France’s three-decade treasure hunt for golden owl has finally ended

A 31-year-long treasure hunt that drew in thousands of enthusiasts across France appeared to have come to an end Thursday, after official social media accounts linked to the search said the token needed to claim the grand prize had been found.

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A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso

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‘Who are you?’ An artist confronts photos of her father’s past lovers

HN9D2Y Douglas Ginsburg (far left) and Jeff Tarr (second from left), of Operation Match, the first computer dating service.

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‘It felt risqué:’ How a computer dating service launched in 1965 changed our love lives

Los Angeles, CA - August 14: Artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, 95, poses for a photo while having her first museum survey exhibition "The Finest Regard", which consists of ceramics, paintings and drawings made by the Venezuela-born artist at LACMA in Los Angeles Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Why this mischievous 95-year-old is messing with Mickey Mouse

These hyperreal drawings of trucks look just like photographs – and take up to 500 hours to make

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden in Greenville, Delaware on September 21, 2024.

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US to return a trove of nearly 300 history-spanning antiquities to India

'Porcelaine Cube' by artist Ai Weiwei is pictured after being destroyed by a man during the opening exhibition, in Bologna, Italy, on September 20, 2024.

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Man smashes Ai Weiwei sculpture at Italy art show opening

‘I’m amazed I lived to tell the tale’: Award-winning photographer on a life spent in the wild

NEW YORK - AUGUST 27: Taylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition

Sculpture of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens

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New sculpture of late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip – plus corgis – divides opinion

Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art attends the MoMA Exhibition Opening Reception: "ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN" at Museum of Modern Art on September 07, 2023 in New York City.

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Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, to step down after 30 years

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Video Why filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz unearthed her family’s secrets for ‘The Persian Version’ 11:41

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Video ‘Nothing to be embarrassed about’: How Asian Americans take pride in their identities 2:39

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Video Daredevil stunts and elaborate costumes: Inside the competitive world of lion dancing 2:51

"Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty six views of Mount Fuji"

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A portrait found in a Maine attic unexpectedly sold for $1.4M. Could it be a long-lost Rembrandt?

"Mao's Guilt" sculpture by Gao Zhen, left, and Gao Qiang, right, in Beijing, China, September 22, 2009.

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An artist made scathing sculptures of Mao over a decade ago. Now, he’s detained for slandering China’s heroes, family says

Ariel Heller, 4, helps to glue a broken clay jar during a special tour with his family after he accidentally broke another jar at the Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, Friday, August 30, 2024.

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Boy who accidentally broke 3,500-year-old jar welcomed back to museum

BLACKSWAN in "K-Pop Idols," premiering August 30, 2024 on Apple TV+.

Grit and glamour: Behind-the-scenes docuseries asks what it takes to become a K-pop idol

Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), 29th December 1964. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Signed Dalí prints ‘tucked away and forgotten’ for 50 years found in garage

A 3,500-year-old jar accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy is seen in a museum in Israel.

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4-year-old accidentally shatters Bronze Age jar at museum

Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanité au buste de femme, 1688 © La Fondation Phoebus, Anvers (Belgique)

Catarina Ykens II (1659-1737), Vanitas Bust of a Lady, 1688 © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium

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Were these Renaissance masterpieces some of the world’s first ‘viral images’?

Banksy artwork in London, United Kingdom on August 13, 2024.

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Banksy London Zoo mural offers clue to why wild animals have been appearing all over city