Two days after the death of Egon Schiele in 1918, Gustinus Ambrosi, a young admiring sculptor, arrived at his coffin, opened it up, and made a mold of the man’s face. Though Ambrosi would ...

All of them had weapons, but only five wore gold death masks, which archaeologists think indicated status. The Mycenaeans were a Bronze Age people who lived throughout southern Greece after about ...

A bronze death mask of Egon Schiele from a mould produced by the Austrian artist Gustinus Ambrosi is to be sold in London on 23 October at Sloane Street Auctions. Schiele, a famed Expressionist ...

A bronze death mask of the celebrated Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele will be auctioned in London on October 23 at Sloane Street Auctions. The mask was made from a mould taken shortly after ...

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The French Senegalese director passed on big-budget Hollywood projects before making her latest film—a fantastical ...

Meet Figaro, a Goffin’s cockatoo. He taught himself how to turn cardboard into a tool. Birds, it turns out, are actually ...

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In a shocking turn of events, Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on federal charges related to an alleged plot to carry out a revenge killing. The charges stem from an ...