If ya like your poker or blackjack games with a dash of flair, you’re in for a treat. Speciality playing-card designer Theory 11 has teamed up with the Whitney Museum of American Art to produce a ...

“Queen of Nooses” from “The Cloisters Playing Cards” (South Netherlandish, Burgundian territories, 1475–80), paper (four layers in pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied ...

“We are commissioning 14 artists to do historical Newton pieces of art on a deck of playing cards. The whole playing card ...

From China, through Persia, India, Europe and now in most of our homes. The humble hearts, clubs, spades and jacks have quite ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a rainy day in Paris in 1990, Frank and Annelies van den Bergh ducked into a tiny bookshop where they ...

Sure, they’re the same playing cards you use for Poker in smoky back rooms (i.e. your kitchen) or for a rousing game of Hearts with the kids, but even in those venues — perhaps especially in those ...

In 1983, The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought a 52-card deck of South Netherlandish playing cards. The cards dated from the 15th century and were in incredible condition — but they were almost lost ...

The 52 priceless artworks featured in the deck are among hundreds of thousands that were lost, sold under duress and looted by the Nazis over six years. Art history buffs, eagle-eyed collectors, ...