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Lock of Napoleon's hair stolen in Australia A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other "priceless" artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said.

16 April 2014

French Jewish group urges Hitler furniture auction ban France's main Jewish body on Sunday called for the cancellation of an auction of Adolf Hitler and Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering's personal effects due in Paris next month.

14 April 2014

Astana Opera ballerina to perform with Eifman Ballet Astana Opera’s lead ballerina Aigerim Beketova has been invited to preform in Budapest and London with Boris Eifman’s troupe.

10 April 2014

H.K. police search landfill for $3.7 mln painting Hong Kong police on Wednesday searched for a valuable painting mistakenly dumped in a landfill after it sold for $3.7 million at auction, reports said.

09 April 2014

Ming-era 'chicken cup' breaks record for Chinese porcelain A rare Ming-era wine cup broke the world auction record for any Chinese porcelain on Tuesday, selling in Hong Kong for $36.05 million to Shanghai tycoon Liu Yiqian, Sotheby's auction house said.

08 April 2014

President-turned-artist Bush tells of 'tense' Putin relations Former US president George W. Bush said relations with Vladimir Putin grew "increasingly tense" during his White House years, as he unveiled his portraits of world leaders, including the Russian head of state.

07 April 2014

Australia set to return ancient statues to India Australia is preparing to return two centuries-old statues to India, following allegations they were stolen from ancient sites and sold as part of an audacious art fraud.

27 March 2014

Kazakhstani writer Ilya Odegov shortlisted for Russian Award Kazakhstani writer Ilya Odegov was shortlisted for the International literary competition Russian Award in the Flash Fiction category.

26 March 2014

Historic Veronese show opens in London A major exhibition of Renaissance master Veronese opens at London's National Gallery on Wednesday, bringing together for the first time in centuries around 50 works from the world-revered painter.

19 March 2014

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Next up from Keith Richards: a book for kids Not content with writing a best-selling autobiography, Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards now is coming out with his first children's book in September, publishing house Little.

12 March 2014

Underwater photos of Kazakhstan photographer acknowledged best by prestigious website Three photos made by a Kazakhstan photographer Nadezhda Kulagina have won prizes of a prestigious photo-website.

10 March 2014

Art with a punch: Liu Bolin, 'China's Andy Warhol' Emerging from the acrid fumes at a steelworks, artist Liu Bolin inspects the progress of his latest work -- a giant iron fist, poised to punch a hole through modern China.

08 March 2014

New Yorker joins legal fray over Nazi art trove An elderly New Yorker has joined the legal fray over the ownership of artwork found in a Munich apartment that was allegedly looted by the Nazis during World War II.

07 March 2014

Exclusive collection of masks presented in Astana An exhibition of the world's only mask collection, the World Exhibition of Masks (WEOM), is taking place at the Schoolchildren's Palace of Astana.

06 March 2014

Hitler-signed 'Mein Kampf' copies sell for $65,000 Two rare copies of "Mein Kampf" signed by the young Nazi leader Adolf Hitler went under the hammer for $64,850 Thursday in Los Angeles.

28 February 2014

Ai Weiwei brushes off painter's smashing of $1m vase Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei shrugged off the smashing of a $1 million Han dynasty vase that was part of his exhibition at a Miami museum, saying his works often get broken.

19 February 2014

New York to auction world's most famous stamp The world's most famous postage stamp, a tiny piece of British colonial memorabilia from 19th century South America, is going under the hammer in New York for $10 to $20 million.

15 February 2014

So who's cool? US photo exhibit tackles the question So what is this thing called cool? A major photography exhibition that opens Friday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington dares to tackle the question.

06 February 2014

Auction record smashed for Spanish cubist artist Gris Juan Gris's Cubist still life "Nature Morte a la Nappe a Carreaux" ("The Checked Tablecloth") sold for £34.8 million at a London sale Tuesday, smashing the auction record for the Spanish artist.

05 February 2014