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Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could fetch more than $120,000 at auction

Sotheby’s will sell its first work credited to a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence later this month.

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Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) "The Girls," 1930

Courtesy of Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum/2024 Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC/ADAGP, Paris/ARS, NY/RoseBudz Productions.

Curators are unraveling the mysteries of the belated art icon Tamara de Lempicka

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Polish police investigating after treasure trove of Bronze Age artifacts mysteriously surfaces

Khashayar Javanmardi 2024 courtesy Loose Joints

Striking photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake

Tracey Emin attending the Women of the Year Awards earlier this month.

Male artists ‘peak in their 40s,’ Tracey Emin says

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 17: South Korean writer Han Kang attends a photocall at Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square Gardens on August 17, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

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Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ confronting human fragility

Marina Abramović. <em>The Great Wall Walk.</em> 1988/2008

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A couple walked from opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and met in the middle. Then they broke up

England, Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum interior gallery. (Photo by: Mockford & Bonetti/Eye Ubiquitous/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Auction house withdraws shrunken heads and other human remains from sale following outcry

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

Caroline Furneaux

‘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

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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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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

René Magritte's L'empire des lumières

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Rare Magritte painting could fetch a record $95 million at New York auction

‘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