A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous L'empire des lumières series is estimated to sell for more than $95m at Christie’s New York this autumn, a sum that would break the Surrealist ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, born on 25 September 1916 in Nagla Chandraban village, Mathura District, Uttar Pradesh, stands out as one of India's most influential politicians and philosophers.

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While Randolph was off with the army, Winston and his wife, Clementine (the subject of an earlier biography by Purnell), deployed their daughter-in-law to charm powerful Americans essential to ...

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Dmitry Bivol is a light heavyweight boxer and former WBA champion. Bivol lost the WBA to Artur Beterbiev in October 2024. He defended the title multiple times, including victories over Canelo ...

In a notable display of support for female artists, the Musée d’Arts de Nantes exercised its right under French law to pre-empt the final bids on three paintings at the recent Bonhams Cornette de ...

According to author Marc Eliot’s unauthorized biography Nicholson ... and began to fill his home with impressive ...

For years, the common misconception about Surrealism was that it was mainly a European movement, with René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and others as its leaders.