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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...

Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English

A major Dutch publisher plans to trial translating books into English using artificial intelligence.Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) – the largest publisher in the...

Andy Warhol prints stolen and damaged in ‘amateurish’ Dutch gallery heist

Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints...

Sunday with Tobias Menzies: ‘ I’ve become a lot better at domestics’

Sunday plans? I’ve really got into cold-water swimming, so that’s often how I start my Sundays. I try to get up not too late...

Rapper Lil Durk charged for role in murder-for-hire scheme in 2022

Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on federal charges that he paid for the attempted 2022 revenge killing of rapper...

Every One Direction album returns to UK Top 40 as fans grieve Liam Payne

The whole of One Direction’s five-album back catalogue has charted in this week’s Top 40, as fans revisit their songs in the wake of...