Lisa Grainger meets Bénédicte de Montlaur, the head of the World Monuments Fund on a mission to save meaningful places.

Sobering images of buildings, bridges and monuments damaged or destroyed in wars and conflicts throughout history. While some ...

The 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban stands as a seminal moment of cultural and theological crisis. This paper argues that the act was not only a crime against human heritage but ...

Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas were a marvel of ancient engineering and culture. When the Taliban destroyed them, the world witnessed a devastating cultural loss. Historians and art lovers mourned the ...

New Delhi: The relics of the Buddha, including a portion of his remains found in Piprahwa in an 1898 excavation , are set to go on display at Qila Rai Pithora soon.The relics were repatriated to India ...

In recent years, the foundational certainties that once underpinned our sense of security have eroded in the face of escalating geopolitical tensions and digital vulnerabilities. The war in Ukraine ...

For more than two decades, the Taliban labelled India as an enemy to humanity, a Hindu “kafir” state supporting foreign agendas in Kabul. Now the same Taliban leadership is stepping into New Delhi ...

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...

A portrait by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for $236.4m (£179m) in New York on Tuesday, making it the second-most expensive piece ever sold at auction. Six people took part in a 20-minute ...