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Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture worth £3.5 million at risk of leaving UK

The wooden painted sculpture, made in the 1940s, has been exhibited at the Tate galleries.

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

Dying people deserve a choice. Let them make it

Letters: Readers who believe the assisted dying bill should be passed into law in England and Wales respond to Guardian coverage

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

Historic Maori Portrait Shatters Auction Records

An oil painting of Maori elder Wharekauri Tahuna by Charles Frederick Goldie sold for a record-breaking $3.75 million, becoming the most valuable Maori portrait in New Zealand art history.

International Business Times · Nov 27, 2024

Trump taps megadonor to lead Navy

John Phelan is a GOP megadonor who will prioritize the "America First vision," Trump said

Salon · Nov 27, 2024

Jury selection under way in international Russian spy plot trial

Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev have denied a charge of conspiracy to spy between August 30 2020 and February 8 2023

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

Reward of £50,000 offered in hunt for stolen historic Scottish coins

A £50,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for a nationally important collection of early Scottish coins stolen from a renowned private…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 27, 2024

Anya Gallaccio: from chocolate walls to wilting flowers – the art of decline, decay and transformation

There is an empty shop on the high street of Paisley, Scotland, that has walls painted entirely in melted dark chocolate. It’s not far from the hospital in which the former Young British Artist, Turner nominee and painter of the chocolate, Anya Gallaccio, was born in 1963.

The Conversation · Nov 27, 2024

A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for £4.9 million – part of the evolving relationship between art and finance

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, entitled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at a jaunty angle. The hammer price? A staggering US$6.2…

The Conversation · Nov 27, 2024

Banksy’s Well Hung Lover to be sold with Bristol building it is painted on

Work showing man hanging from window ledge appeared in 2006 on wall of listed Georgian property

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

'I miss him desperately': Shane MacGowan's widow reflects on grief one year on from The Pogues star's death

The Pogues singer died following a number of health complications, less than a month before what would have been his 66th birthday on Christmas Day

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024