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12 Facts About the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery—the World's Biggest Art Heist

An FBI photograph of the crime scene after the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, as seen in This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (2021).

12 Facts About the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery—the World's Biggest Art Heist

20 Amazing Historical Discoveries in the Last 20 Years

The Staffordshire Hoard contains the one of the richest collections of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.

20 Amazing Historical Discoveries in the Last 20 Years

Visit the Pyramids of Giza Without Even Leaving Your Couch

The Great Sphinx with the Pyramids of Giza in the distance.

Visit the Pyramids of Giza Without Even Leaving Your Couch

You Can Plant Trees and Paint Like Bob Ross as Part of Michigan’s 'Happy Little Getaway' Vacation Package

The Cut River off Higgins Lake in Roscommon, Michigan.

You Can Plant Trees and Paint Like Bob Ross as Part of Michigan’s 'Happy Little Getaway' Vacation Package

This Creepy Human Eye Webcam Reminds You That You're Being Watched

Marc Teyssier

12 Fascinating Facts About the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A crowd on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

What Are NFTs Anyway?

In March 2021, digital artist Beeple sold a JPG of Everydays: The First 5000 Days for a record-setting $69.3 million.

The Louvre Just Launched a New Online Database With Its Entire Collection—More Than 480,000 Artworks

The Louvre by night.

A New Edition of The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien Is on Its Way

You can now see the story as J.R.R. Tolkien imagined it.

When Picasso’s Weeping Woman Was Stolen By Art Terrorists

Sam Boswell, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0

Discover Artisan-Crafted Items From Small Businesses Through Amazon's Handmade Page

Prajakta P./Different Strokes Art/Amazon

The Reason a Grasshopper Wound Up Stuck in Vincent van Gogh's Painting Olive Trees

Vincent van Gogh painted Olive Trees in 1889 perhaps without realizing it contained a dead grasshopper.

8 Unique Women-Owned Businesses You Can Support Right Now

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Stolpersteine: One Artist's International Memorial to the Holocaust

John MacDougall, Getty Images

A Rare Chinese Porcelain Bowl Found at a Yard Sale Could Fetch $500,000 at Auction

The lotus bowl, worth much more than $35.

Vincent van Gogh’s Rarely Seen Scène de rue à Montmartre to Be Put on Public Display for First Time Ever

Scène de rue à Montmartre, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1887.