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Christie’s withdraws rare ‘first calculator’ from auction after French court halts export

Move comes after French scientists issued urgent appeal to prevent La Pascaline from leaving the country

The Guardian - UK

Rome-based group opens new US museum dedicated to the Shroud of Turin

The original is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case house in Italy

The Independent UK

Klimt Portrait Sells for $236.4 million, Becomes Most Expensive Modern Artwork Ever

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ever auctioned as part of the landmark sale of Leonard Lauder's private collection.

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Klimt Portrait Sells for $236.4 million (£179.91 million), Becomes Most Expensive Modern Artwork Ever

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million (£179.91 million) at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ever auctioned as part of the landmark sale of Leonard Lauder's private collection.

International Business Times UK

TV tonight: what Turner’s private sketchbooks reveal about his life

Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Gustav Klimt painting that spared subject from Nazis breaks modern art price record

The only higher public sale remains ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo da Vinci, which sold in 2017 for $450m at Christie's

The Independent UK

Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

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Zelensky visits Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ painting years after making Ukraine bombing comparison

Zelensky referenced the painting in April 2022 while addressing Spain’s parliament

The Independent UK

Alfreda McHale obituary

Other lives: Artist who built installations using domestic objects, from tea trolleys and buttons to cutlery and glass jars

The Guardian - UK

Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane

The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show

The Guardian - UK

"You never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul": Legendary $1 billion Jim Irsay Collection to be auctioned in 2026, including Kurt Cobain's Teen Spirit Fender Mustang

Auctions will begin in March next year

MusicRadar

Louvre museum in Paris shuts gallery over structural safety fears

The Louvre Museum has announced that it has closed one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. This is a further setback for the renowned institution which came under the spotlight last month after a daring jewellery…

Radio France Internationale

Epstein's Painting Of Bill Clinton In A Blue Dress And Red Heels Resurface After Viral 'The Photo Of Trump Blowing Bubba'

A painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and red heels, once displayed in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home, resurfaces as online attention surges over a viral email about Trump 'blowing Bubba.'

International Business Times UK

Louvre dealt another blow after heist as it’s forced to close gallery

Modernizing the Sully wing is among priorities of the renovation efforts announced in January

The Independent UK

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Minne Fry obituary

Other lives: Artist and teacher whose abstract work took nature as its major stimulus

The Independent UK

White House Historical Association reclaims Rockwell sketches for $5.8 million at auction

The White House Historical Association has paid $5.8 million at auction to reclaim a series of Norman Rockwell sketches that once hung in the West Wing

The Independent UK

Man jailed after stealing £270,000 Banksy print to pay off historic drug debt

Larry Fraser, 49, stole the limited edition painting from the Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, central London, in September 2024

Evening Standard

Man jailed for stealing £270k Banksy print from London art gallery

Judge Anne Brown described the incident as a ‘brazen and serious non-domestic burglary’

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Nava - Gabbeh album review: 'Inspirational Iranian avant-pop'

4/5 Nava is the Iranian star whose voice in the treatment of women there finds a spectacular vehicle here

Benzinga

Classic TV Auction Pulls In $3.17 Million As Batman, Star Trek & Fonzie Props Sell In What Was Deemed 'A Love Letter To The Golden Age Of Television'

By the time the final gavel fell, collectors and investors from around the world had spent more than $3.17 million at Heritage Auctions' Television Treasures sale, spotlighting how nostalgia-fueled buying of collectibles from the past is now serious business.

International Business Times UK

Giant Trump-Epstein Statue Is Back 'At The Worst Time' In Washington After More 'Incriminating' Emails Are Released

A satirical 10-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has re-emerged outside a Washington, D.C. restaurant amid the release of incriminating emails, provoking fresh scrutiny of their relationship.

The Guardian - UK

Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m

Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing

The Guardian - UK

Maggi meets Sarah, Anish Kapoor takes on Ice and Suffolk seduces Spencer – the week in art

Hambling and Lucas join forces, Roger Fry gets a rare show and an aerial daredevil captures stormy Scotland

International Business Times UK

D4vd Case Update: Build-A-Bear Certificate Could Be A Clue Revealing How Celeste Rivas Spent Her Final Days

A newly surfaced Build-A-Bear certificate may offer clues about how the teenager spent her final days, and private investigator Steve Fischer now believes that Celeste and D4vd were together shortly before her death.

Marie Claire

These Dior Lady Art Bags Are Wardrobe Masterpieces

Ten artists from around the world reinterpreted one of fashion's most legendary accessories.

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