Raphael painting sells for £18m

"A painting by Renaissance artist Raphael has sold for more than £18m ($37.3m) at an auction in London. The portrait, of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici, had not been seen in public since 1968. When it was last sold, the art world was divided over its origins and it sold...

What Kind of Genius Are You?

"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet. In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics major at Harvard, he took what he describes as a “gut” course in 17th-century Dutch art. On the...