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Helen Galloway McNicoll, The Bean Harvest, estimated £150,000-250,000. Sold for £174,000 An English artist and part-time art dealer who bought a wrongly labelled oil painting for £2,090 at a regional UK auction made a life-changing discovery when experts confirmed that the painting was a long-lost Impressionist masterpiece. The artwork had originally been listed only as…

A former 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has been given an unusual second life as an interactive art shop where familiar convenience-store products have been transformed into deliberately impractical artworks. Called the ‘Inconvenience Store’, the exhibition keeps much of the former shop’s layout, including its aisles, checkout area, refrigerator and hot-food counter, but fills them with…

Legendary musician, conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas’s Pacific Heights residence has hit the market. The historic mansion at 2670 Pierce Street was Thomas’s home for 32 years, where he lived with his husband and longtime manager, Joshua Robison. Thomas died in April 2026, just two months after Robison’s death. Now, for the first time…

Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s US ambassador Yechiel Leiter, was seriously injured in a ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday.Neria, a reservist in the Israeli military, “needs a miracle,” his father said in a social media post. The ambassador’s older son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who also served in the military, was killed in…

More than 800,000 bees have been stolen from commercial hives across Far North Queensland in a series of unusual thefts that appear to have targeted the living colonies rather than their honey. The stolen bees belonged to at least three beekeepers on the Atherton Tablelands, west of Cairns, with 44 colonies reported missing. The bees…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier A Florida school district is reviewing allegations involving a history teacher accused of repeatedly singling out an eighth-grade student over his conservative views and calling him a “misogynist”.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier raised the allegations in a letter sent to Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Terry Connor and the school board….

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme that used stolen personal information to obtain replacement debit and credit cards. Investigators said the cards were then used to make more than $650,000 in retail purchases, affecting at least 10 identity-theft victims. According…

New York City is as much of a historic gaga as it is a modern icon. For years, the place has been hub to world’s dreamers and believers, art and artists and anyone who wants to make something happen. One of the most popular thing about the city is also its landmarks and one of…

Users began reporting delayed transfers of donations as early as late 2024 An Oakland-based donation platform collapsed after thousands of nonprofits said they were left waiting for donations that had been collected for their organisations. Flipcause filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025, listing nearly $29 million owed to more than 3,200 organisations across…

A Buddhist sculpture bought at a garage sale for approximately $75–100 later became the centre of a major Sotheby’s auction result, selling for $2.06 million in New York. The gilt-bronze figure depicts Cintamanicakra Avalokiteshvara, a form of the Chinese Buddhist deity Avalokiteshvara, also known as Guanyin. According to Sotheby’s, the work dates to the late…