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Madonna raises $7m from sale of Fernand Léger painting to 'make girls like Malala smile' around the world
Wednesday 08 May 2013
The Queen of Pop will donate the proceeds to her Ray of Light Foundation to promote girls' education in the Middle East and South Asia
$1bn gift of cubist art to transform New York's Met
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Cosmetics heir and heavy-weight philanthropist Leonard A Lauder has donated 78 pieces to the museum
Mary Beard named as Royal Academy of Arts professor of ancient literature
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Mary Beard is to follow in the steps of luminaries such as Samuel Johnson after the Royal Academy of Arts named her as its new professor of ancient literature.
Donald Richie: Author and acclaimed scholar of Japanese cinema
Monday 01 April 2013
His book 'The Films of Akira Kurosawa' raised the bar for film scholarship round the world
Page 3 Profile: Tilda Swinton, actress and installation artist
Monday 25 March 2013
So what's her latest role?
Sleeping beauty: Tilda Swinton beds down in
the name of art (again)
Sunday 24 March 2013
Tilda Swinton, arthouse film doyenne, blockbuster actress and sometime conceptual artist, has reprised her art exhibit The Maybe for the first time in almost two decades.
Blur to play in Ireland in August
Monday 04 March 2013
Blur have announced their first Irish gig in four years.
The unseen archive of Lee Miller
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Thousands of never-seen-before images will shortly be made available online
Modigliani 'expert' accused of being art's biggest fraud
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Christian Gregori Parisot was recognised as an authority on the Italian figurative artist - until he was arrested for forging and fraudulently endorsing dozens of fakes
Why America’s next Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew had better get himself a better signature
Thursday 10 January 2013
Loopy autograph will be carried across the world on the face of dollar
Postcard from... Madrid
Tuesday 08 January 2013
Art fans in Spain are in luck. In a couple of weeks, arguably the most comprehensive assembly of Latin American art – the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros – will be arriving in Europe for the first time, with some of its best modern works appearing at an exhibition in Madrid's Reina Sofia museum.
Police 'not very interested' in stolen $1 million Matisse painting found in Essex
Monday 07 January 2013
A Henri Matisse painting worth $1m (£620,000) stolen from a Swedish art gallery 22 years ago has been recovered in Essex.
Past masters
Monday 07 January 2013
Was 1913 really the year that changed the cultural world? Perhaps not, says Michael Glover, but a bold new show has much to teach art-lovers in 2013
One Minute With: Frances Fyfield, crime writer
Saturday 22 December 2012
Where are you now and what can you see?
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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