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“I always dreamed of having a peacock chair just because it’s so ingrained in Black culture,” said Amanda Wicks, seated, with ...
The backsplash is a brushed stainless steel design, complementing the honed Paonazzo marble island. The faucet is a brushed ...
Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French ...
A French court on Wednesday sentenced a top antiques expert to jail for duping the Palace of Versailles and wealthy collectors into buying furniture he had helped build, claiming it ...
In the early 2010s, two ornate chairs said to have once belonged on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles appeared on the ...
The body of an 18th century French archbishop, discovered during building work for the Channel Tunnel rail link, has been reinterred in a French cathedral. The remains of the Archbishop of Narbonne, ...
Surprising century-old graffiti was found under the paint of an abandoned prison building in France. Antoine Lacaille French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Building No ...
I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British ...
While the embellished feminine motifs of the French court were once dismissed as “suspicious, unserious and corrupt” by 18th-century England (Thom, 2022), the softness and delicacy of Rococo have ...
In crafting a similar legal mechanism to those 18th-century letters, the government would have to consider where to issue legal protections for firms if they are indeed authorized to offensively ...
Plagiarism has been a menace since the invention of the art of writing, and then the facsimile, and then Wikipedia, and bam! ChatGPT. Copying with finesse is no more a trade secret of the shrewd. It ...
"The Cut Melon," a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will be on view to the public starting Thursday at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.