A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

For decades, this Mexican artist has embraced eye-popping whimsy — giant pears atop buildings and hands as chairs. At 89, he's not done yet.

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...

This German city is known as a financial hub but there are so many more things to do in Frankfurt, from city sights to ...

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday celebrated Mass at a Benedictine monastery in Rome, where he urged the monks to confront modern challenges with prayer, study, and personal holiness. Sant’Anselmo Church, ...

The ghosts of literary and thespian history swirl around Stanbrook Abbey Hotel’s plush dining room, as pungent as the aroma ...

Believing that "art can bring people's hearts closer" and that "music is a bridge that transcends language," Chinese pianist ...

Upon his arrival at Sant’Anselmo Church, Pope Leo was welcomed by the abbot primate of the Benedictines, Jeremias Schröder, who symbolically handed over the keys of the church to the Pope. Pope Leo ...