Uber launches new ‘Uber Safari’ services in Cape Town, Bad news for braai lovers in South Africa, CEOs target eye-watering economic growth by end of 2025, and Switzerland and Italy redraw border due to melting glaciers.
Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting ‘Femme à la montre’ sold for more than $139 million (R2,6 billion) at a Sotheby’s New York auction last week, making it the most valuable work of art sold at auction this year.
Nine years ago, thieves stole paintings by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian from the National Gallery in Athens.
Prince Charles accidentally became mixed up in an art forgery scandal involving James Stunt and a man called Tony Tetro, who did some paintings in his kitchen.
Pablo Picasso died back in 1973, and it looks like that has added quite a few zeroes to the value of his artworks. Take for example the latest auction.
Picasso handyman trial begins. Costa Concordia captain convicted. SONA 2015 today. Stellenbosch rape. Man freed after 30 years. Tesla’s big loss. Cellphone ‘kill switch’ a raging success. Apple’s $850 million solar farm.
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in August 1911. How did one of the best-known painters of all time become a prime suspect?
Everybody needs their own “mood-room” or “creative space” where they can go to seek inspiration, find solitude, and get down to some serious creative work. For most students, it’s a small wooden desk with strands of two-minute-noodle dangling off the edges. For office-workers, it’s a slightly bigger wooden desk, but without any noodles. But where did Einstein, Steve Jobs and Rudyard Kipling do their work? Take a look.