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Museums acquired most of their treasures through negotiation, not plunder
Rufus Bird says rumours of a market decline are overstated
The troubled history of US-China relations
Grandma’s engagement ring IN the pantheon of stories ...
In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land
Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge
What the West owes to the ancient world