A provided image shows the painting “The Wedding at Cana,” by Paolo Veronese. The painting was seized by Napoleon’s forces in Venice, Italy, and brought to France, where it remains. (Louvre Museum; RMN-Grand Palais via The New York Times)

How art stolen by Napoleon returned home

Roughly half of the Italian paintings that Napoleon had taken were returned and the other half stayed in France

Guests watch a performance of the West End show 'The Show Must Go On' at the Palace Theatre, amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London, Britain, Jun 2, 2021. REUTERS

Lloyd-Webber vows to re-open London theatres

The British theatre entrepreneur vows to reopen his shows in London without social distancing restrictions, even if he is arrested for it

FILE — Ursula Burns at the headquarters of Xerox in Norwalk, Conn, Jan 12, 2010. Burns, the first Black female chief executive of a Fortune 500 company, tells her story in a new memoir, “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are.” (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times.)

Ursula Burns recounts her career at Xerox

The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company shares insights on corporate life in her new memoir

David Diop, the author of “At Night All Blood Is Black,” at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, May 17, 2021.

Tale of Senegalese
soldier wins Booker
Prize

“At Night All Blood Is Black,” a novel written by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis, had already received rave reviews

The cover for Salman Rushdie's book of essays 'Languages of Truth'. Photo taken via the author's official Facebook account.

In ‘languages of truth,’ Rushdie defends the extraordinary

His new collection of essays includes an argument for brio-filled imaginative writing in an age of the humbler delights of autofiction

A man photographs

'Ghost Forest' warns on rising sea water

The trees are from the Atlantic Pine Barrens of New Jersey, about 160 km from downtown Manhattan

Royal Collection Trust staff pose beside some of Leonardo Da Vinci's anatomical studies at A Life in Drawing, the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in more than 65 years, at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace in London, Britain, May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

Vinci's 'Head of Bear' drawing
seen fetching up to $16m

The silverpoint drawing on a pink-beige paper heads to auction in July

A provided photo shows James Lee Byars’ drawing “Untitled,” (1959) in the show “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (James Lee Byars; Museum of Modern Art via The New York Times)

MoMA rethinks the art of the 1950s

A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American

The artist Lonnie Holley at the South Etna Montauk Foundation with his “Untitled Wall Painting,” 2021, and a growing collection of scavenged finds worn on his wrists, in Montauk, N,Y, Apr 23, 2021. The Alabama artist and musician has arrived at a career milestone, with two exhibitions in the Hamptons and a gallery to map his future. Kendall Bessent/The New York Times

Holley’s life of
perseverance, and
art of transformation

The Alabama artist and musician has arrived at a career milestone, with two exhibitions in the Hamptons and a gallery to map his future

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