A French Court Has Ordered Christie’s to Restitute an Adriaen Van Der Werff Painting That Was Stolen During World War II
A Nazi-looted painting by the Dutch Old Master Adriaen van der Werff looks to be on its way back to…
The World’s Poorest Country is Sitting on $24 Trillion
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In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine bitcoin and buy groceries with tether, as $1 is now worth 15 cents
Aerial view of the seafront Manara district near downtown Beirut. Bilwander | Getty Images When Georgio Abou Gebrael first heard…
Markets need to ‘re-anchor their thinking’: Bank of England chief economist hints that traders have it wrong
LONDON — The Bank of England remains committed to its “key goal” of bringing down inflation, but hopes markets will…
Firefighters Contained a Blaze That Broke Out at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
Don’t worry—the giant blue whale is safe. But there was a bit of a scare at New York’s American Museum…
BP rakes in quarterly profit of $8.2 billion as oil majors post another round of bumper earnings
Shares of BP are up over 45% year-to-date. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Oil and gas giant BP…
At Age 94, Op Artist Julio Le Parc Continues to Work Every Day in His Paris Studio of Enchanting Colors. See It Here
At the age of 94, Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, a giant of the Kinetic and Op Art movements, is…
A New York Exhibition on the Salem Witch Trials Explores the Legacy of the Dark Historical Chapter on the Descendants of the Accused
Magic is afoot at the New-York Historical Society, where a new exhibition revisits a dark chapter in U.S. history: the…
Chinese tech giants’ push into U.S., Europe’s markets sets up potential clash with Amazon
TikTok owner ByteDance has launched a women’s fashion website called If Yooou. Pinduoduo launched an e-commerce site in the U.S.…
Big Tech falters on dreary earnings and forecasts for Q4— Meta has worst week ever, Amazon tumbles 13%
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Marlene Awaad | Bloomberg | Getty Images Other than Apple, it was a brutal earnings week…
‘With the Wrong Prints, Your House Could Look Like a Dentist’s Office’: Collector Ralph DeLuca Shares His Insider Tips at the IFPDA Fair
It was the day before the VIP preview of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair when I cold called art…
A Painting Nearly Destroyed in the Beirut Blast of 2020 Has Been Identified as a Long-Lost Artemisia Gentileschi—and Is Now Undergoing Restoration
The painting at Beirut’s Sursock Palace was lucky to survive the explosion in August 2020, which killed more than 200…
Paula Cooper Is Now Representing the Estate of Jay DeFeo, the Still-Overlooked Artist Who Did Much More Than ‘The Rose’
Paula Cooper Gallery will now handle the estate of the late Abstract Expressionist artist Jay DeFeo, representing the Jay DeFeo…