A Mural Celebrating Tipu Sultan Sold At Auction. His Legacy

The mural shows Indian cavalry advancing from both sides in the cornered British army. In one part of the 18th century battlefield, the victorious commander sits on an elephant holding a red rose in his hand. According to a prominent British historian of India, the nearly 32-foot-long masterpiece, which was auctioned in London on Wednesday, …

Botticelli To Be Sold At $40 Million Sotheby’s Auction

A long-overlooked painting by Italian renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, now being touted as a “semi-permanent masterpiece,” is poised to make the art market’s first headline-grabbing auction price in 2022. Botticelli’s temperature on the panel “Man of Sorrow” a half-length depiction of the resurrected Jesus raising his hand in blessing, the star party of a Sotheby’s …

Fake Covid Masks Still Sold Everywhere

The domestic industry’s woes extend beyond the consumer mask market. In recent months, the medical supply giants that serve the nation’s major hospital systems have eagerly resumed purchasing lower-cost protective equipment from overseas. Companies including McKesson, Henry Schein and Cardinal Health are lobbying the Biden administration to hold off for a while. tariff exemption in …

He Sold His People’s Legacy. In the Jungle to Get Him Back.

As Toek Tik recounts, he was a junior infantryman. genocidal Khmer Rouge It was in Cambodia in the late 1970s that he first realized that looting ancient statues could be a lucrative trade. He remembered once, while bartering stolen cattle for clothing at the Thai border, a trading partner pointed to an oxcart holding the …

Frida Kahlo’s ‘Diego and I’ Self-Portrait Sold for $34.9 Million

A self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, an artist known for her raw emotional intensity, sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s Tuesday night, setting an auction benchmark for the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist. Completed five years before his death in 1954, the oil painting “Diego and Me” is one of Kahlo’s last self-portraits …

Pfizer Will Allow Covid Pill To Be Made And Cheaply Sold In Poor Countries

DURBAN, South Africa — Pfizer announced on Tuesday an agreement that allows promising Covid-19 treatment to be made and sold cheaply in 95 poor countries, home to more than half of the world’s population. The deal follows a similar arrangement negotiated by Merck last month, and together the deals have the potential to greatly expand …

Antiquities Dealer Admits Mass-Production Counterfeits He Has Sold For Years

For decades, customers interested in rare items of all kinds – ancient coins, sarcophagus masks, prehistoric fossils – went to Mehrdad Sadigh’s gallery near the Empire State Building in Manhattan. Items came with certificates of authenticity, and the gallery’s website was filled with praise from customers who appreciated the elegant touch it brought to its …

Hackers and Facebook: 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Without Evidence Is Not Sold

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee made a striking claim in her keynote speech at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday with a Facebook informant. “Yesterday, it was reported that more than 1.5 billion – that’s right, 1.5 billion – private data of Facebook users had been sold on a hacking forum,” said Ms. Blackburn, a …

The Hill has been sold to a television giant

NewsNation, formerly called WGN America, was positioned by Nexstar as a truth-telling news channel when it debuted last year. But the news director and editor-in-chief of the prime-time news blog, also called “NewsNation,” resigned shortly after it was revealed that Bill Shine, former co-chair of Fox News, had joined us as a consultant. Journalists on …

Adidas sold Reebok to Authentic Brands for $2.5 billion.

German sportswear giant Adidas is selling Reebok for just over half that, sixteen years after purchasing Reebok for $4 billion. Authentic Brands Groupgreedy buyer of struggling brands. Over the past few years, Authentic has acquired: the brooks brothers and forever 21by adding it to a barn containing Sports Illustrated. The acquisition of Reebok for 2.1 …