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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.

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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

Auctions will begin in March next year

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…

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.'

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

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

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