Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked.

The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York ...

Sotheby’s Modern evening sale in New York brought in $152m ($186.4m with fees) on Tuesday, 13 May, far below the auction house’s presale estimate of $170m-$248m. Even blue-chip artists, it ...

Be ready for be amazed by the ingenious skills and techniques used to create an extremely beautiful curved wooden chair. This video takes you behind the scenes of a woodworking masterpiece ...

The craftsmanship is extraordinary, showcasing the incredible skills required to create beautiful, functional designs. Witness how curved woodwork brings timeless elegance to every piece of furniture!

His predictions were confirmed by the comet’s return in 1758, by which time Halley had been dead for sixteen years. Bach’s musical research based on Neumann’s work contemplates the ticking ...

Excitedly, the 200m specialist states that her favourite part of the race is when she exits the curve and “slingshots” into the straight. “It’s like ‘boom!’, she says. “If you exit ...

An illustration of a dark comet in space. Credit: Nicole Smith In the darkness of space that surrounds Earth, a group of small, icy bodies are swarming after being expelled from the farther ...

they are all curved in the same sense. As might have been expected, the comet gave rise to an animated discussion at yesterday's sitting of the Academy of Sciences. M. ELIE DE BEAUMONT read a ...

Disconnection events are a rarity, but become more likely as a comet gets closer to the Sun. Stronger, more frequent CMEs are expected as the Sun approaches the peak in its 11-year cycle known as ...