Arts & Life

FILE PHOTO: An art installation by Turkish artist Vahit Tuna with 440 pairs of high heels, the number of women murdered by men in Turkey in 2018, symbolizing the victims of domestic violence, is pictured in Istanbul, Turkey, September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Mesude Bulbul ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish artist Vahit Tuna …

PARIS (Reuters) – A long-lost painting by a 13th century Italian master discovered in the kitchen of an elderly French woman has been valued at up to six million euros and will be sold at auction next month. The painting “Christ Mocked” (C), a long-lost masterpiece by Florentine Renaissance artist …

For years, there was a maxim that the auction market was fueled by the three D’s: death, divorce and debt. Natural upheavals powered the supply side of the business, the thinking went. But these days, auction houses are working much harder — and, by their own accounts, smarter — to …

WHO PUT THIS SONG ON? By Morgan Parker Image Parker, an award-winning poet and essayist, drew from her high school journals and an unfinished memoir to create this loosely autobiographical Y.A. debut. “Who Put This Song On?” is lovely, honest, wrenching and funny — a tribute to music, survival and …

The iconic copper rooster, which was perched at the top of the spire of Notre-Dame Cathedral for more than a century, before the blaze, is displayed at the exhibition “Revoir Notre-Dame de Paris” as part of European Heritage Days 2019, at the French Culture Ministry in Paris, France, September 20, …

Raising children, keeping a job and riding horses for a cheering crowd — life on the all-black professional rodeo circuit. Azja Bryant is a pharmacy technician. Jazmine Bennett works for UPS. Krishaun Adair works for state of Texas as an agriculture inspector. But they also call themselves cowgirls. They first …

A stone kneeling figure of Aztec water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, one of pre-Columbian artefacts, is presented to the press at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS (Reuters) – French auction house Millon denied accusations by the Mexican government that a sale of dozens of pre-Columbian …

LOS ANGELES — Who needs a “Plus” or a “Max” when you can use the plumage of a colorful bird? Such is the thinking at NBCUniversal, which announced on Tuesday that its new streaming service would be named Peacock. “For us, it’s the perfect nod to the legacy without being …

What drove me to share Telgemeier’s latest book, GUTS (Scholastic, 224 pp., $24.99; ages 8 and up), with my therapist was not her rendering of the social ecology of fourth grade — though her skill at that puts her in the rarefied company of writers like Judy Blume and Beverly …

Among the burgeoning global movement of young environmental activists the book chronicles is the Swedish 15-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has galvanized audiences from Davos to the United Nations with her blunt shaming of inaction by politicians and corporate executives in the face of looming catastrophe. Thunberg is the book’s hero, …