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Unesco officials and third parties express concern after Cambodian government grants Hong Kong-based company seventy-five hectares of land to develop just 500 meters south of the World Heritage site of Angkor.

A look at the work of one of the Golden Age's greatest illustrators, Edmund Dulac, and the evolution of his stylistic approach during his lifetime.

Anna Shay and Florent Bonadei chatted with Art & Object about their friendship and what high jewelry means to them.

Celebrated for his stylish sculptures of decaying technological devices and crumbling cultural artifacts, Daniel Arsham makes art that looks as though it was just discovered in an archeological dig.

YInMn Blue has caused a great deal of buzz this week as it finally becomes available to consumers. The shade was first discovered in 2009, in an Oregon State University lab, by chemist Mas Subramanian and his team. The event was happenstance—the result of experimentation with rare earth elements and semiconductors.

In the age of smartphones and smartglasses, we might feel blasé about a camera hidden in a hollowed-out hardcover book or a carton of Marlboros. As clunky as they may seem now, these objects were novelties used by covert intelligence operatives in the middle of the twentieth century. More impressive might be a ring camera, similar to the one that appears in the 1985 James Bond flick, A View to a Kill.

ARCA CEO Lynda Albertson is the star of a new documentary short directed by Bella Monticelli, Lot 448, that premiered February 1 at the Tribeca Film Festival. In it, she is shown tracking an Etruscan polychrome painted fifth century BCE antefix (a decorative item found on rooftops). Evidence indicates it was pilfered from the Necropoli della Banditaccia, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Italy.

On Wednesday, February 3, the US Supreme Court announced a unanimous decision on a landmark case, siding with Germany in a Nazi-era restitution case regarding the Guelph Treasure.

Movie star Angelina Jolie has decided to sell a Winston Churchill painting—a remarkable piece with an intriguing historical context and history of ownership.

Master of Finnish Modernism and Gender Pioneer