Frank Frazetta's legendary artwork helped redefined Conan the Barbarian, shaping how the character would perceived in pop culture. First appearing in Robert E. Howard's pulp stories, Conan is a ...

Veteran sculptor Ram Sutar, known for creating the 182-metre-tall Statue of Unity, has been awarded the Maharashtra Bhushan, the state's highest civilian honor. The decision was made by a ...

The Mark Twain Prize will be given to Conan O’Brien on Sunday. (The show will stream on Netflix at a later date.) The evening straddles the past and future of the Kennedy Center: Though it was ...

Of the 2,000 or so performances that the Kennedy Center hosts for its approximately 2 million guests each year, two best sum up its ambitions as a temple of creative achievement: the Kennedy ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

France’s self-professed last sculpture foundry has weighed into a row over whether the US should return the Statue of Liberty to its country of origin by proposing to build a new one out of ...

A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.” Raphael Glucksmann ...

The United States has firmly rejected a suggestion by French politician Raphael Glucksmann that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, dismissing his remarks as unwarranted and ...

During the March 13, 2025, episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast, O’Brien discussed the rules surrounding the award and its sacrality. He noted that the statue is considered a “religious ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

French politician Raphaël Glucksmann has been making headlines for suggesting that the US should return the Statue of Liberty, as the country under Trump is, in his opinion, no longer worthy of ...

"Give us back the Statue of Liberty," said Glucksmann, according to Agence France-Presse. "We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired ...