Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum innaugurated with lavish ceremony
Culture • Nov 1, 2025, 4:37 PM
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Egypt opened the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on Saturday in a lavish, spectacle laden ceremony, which Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said was "a new chapter in the history of the present and the future". Cairo has pinned great hopes on the long-delayed museum, a key plank of plans to revive the tourism industry so vital to its troubled economy.
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This Frida Kahlo painting is likely to break the record of most expensive work by any female
Culture • 10:24 AM
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A painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will be up for sale at Sotheby's auction house on Thursday. The piece known in English as "The Dream (The bed)" is expected to go for an estimated $40 - $60 million which would make it the most expensive work by a
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A Klimt portrait is now the second most expensive artwork ever auctioned
Culture • 3:33 AM
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A rare full-length portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the second most expensive artwork ever auctioned. The fiercely contested sale underscores surging demand for museum-calibre pieces as So
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