John Heartfield, the German anti-fascist artist, made a famous photomontage of Hitler arm raised taking wads of cash from secret big business backers. The oligarchs hide in shadows no more. They got ...

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.

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Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale realised a total of £14,370,000 / $18,652,260 / €17,114,670, a 25% increase year on year, with sell through rates of 81% by lot and 85% by value.

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945. Just four months after publicly ...

The recent news of a prominent political personality seeking refuge in the embrace of his former adversary has not just left many shaking their heads in disbelief, but has also sparked profound ...

CIA Director-designate John Ratcliffe vowed in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would excise “political or personal biases” and make the spy agency “the ultimate meritocracy ...

Although many of these films are now heralded as legitimate classics, City Hall is an underrated political thriller that was largely ahead of its time. It may not have boasted the action and ...

John Mahama has been sworn in for a second term ... Caucus at the Pan-African Parliament in Pretoria. With a history of political stability, Ghana’s two main parties, the ruling NPP and the ...

we sat down with former Carlisle MP John Stevenson to get his thoughts on the future of the city, the challenges facing the county and the current national political climate... THE city of ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with ...