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Long-Lost Rodin Marble Le Désespoir Found on a Family Piano Sells for $1.2 Million

For more than a century, a luminous white-marble figure by Auguste Rodin rested unnoticed atop a family piano in central France. The owners, who believed it to be a harmless copy, invited auctioneer Aymeric…

The Muse He Silenced: Picasso’s Dark Affair with Dora Maar

by Raquel Cohen

Dora Maar began the 1930s as a daring photographer whose surreal images set her apart in the Paris avant garde. Politically engaged and close to the Surrealists, she worked with writers like Georges Bataille,…

When Pop Art Took a Bullet: The 1968 Shooting of Andy Warhol

On the afternoon of June 3rd 1968 radical writer Valerie Solanas marched into Andy Warhol’s new Union Square studio carrying two handguns and a folder full of grudges. Within minutes three shots tore through…

The Klimt Portrait That Vanished for a Century

Imagine uncovering an attic canvas and finding a glimmering Gustav Klimt beneath the dust, one that scholars believed lost for nearly one hundred years. That real-life art-world shock arrived in early…

Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog is a Monument to Everyday Wonder

Few sculptures have captured the global imagination like Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog. Towering, glossy, and uncannily familiar, these works reimagine a party trick as a high-art spectacle rendered not in rubber…

Did Pablo Picasso Steal the Mona Lisa?

by Raquel Cohen

In 1911, the world’s most famous painting vanished from the Louvre, and somehow, Pablo Picasso, the 30-year-old rising star of modern art, found himself tangled in the mystery. How did a young Spanish…

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