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Magritte painting sells for record $121m at auction

A painting by René Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121m at Christie’s in New York.The seminal 1954 painting had...

Prado show aims to highlight true colours of polychrome sculpture

In a darkened corner of the Prado, not far from an outsized crucifixion and a sculpture of a...

Minecraft enters real world with $110m global theme park deal

The global gaming phenomenon Minecraft is coming to the real world for the first time in a global...

‘Happy hour in reverse’: where dynamic pricing may creep further

Paying a premium for a flight during the school holidays or a cab at peak hours might be...

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

It’s Mary Tudor – by a nose. Not in a horse race, but from a comparison of portraits...

US rapper Fatman Scoop dies after collapsing on stage mid-performance

The US rapper Fatman Scoop has died after he collapsed mid-performance during a free concert in Connecticut on Friday night, according to reports. The New...

Oasis warn that gig tickets resold at inflated prices will be cancelled

Oasis have issued a warning to people against reselling tickets for their reunion tour – or buying those resold tickets – on the secondary...

Austrian town gets its lederhosen in a twist over modern art

I’m walking through the town of Bad Aussee, in Austria’s alpine Salzkammergut region, where I’m expecting a vision of depravity to emerge through the...

‘I couldn’t believe it was my son who did it’: Boy, 4, smashes bronze age jar in Israel museum

A rare bronze age jar – its history stretching back at least 3,500 years – had long graced the entrance of the Hecht Museum...

Francis Ford Coppola confirms he kissed extras on Megalopolis set

Francis Ford Coppola says that he did kiss film extras on the set of his forthcoming film Megalopolis but that “they were young women...

Bauhaus urns and Scrabble-themed coffins: UK embraces new funeral trends

David Bowie was ahead of his time when he said he would like his death to be as interesting as his life – now,...