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Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Nikita Khrushchev … Scott Covert takes rubbings at big names’ graves, often getting chased away. ‘It breaks my heart,’ he says, ‘when I hear someone’s been cremated’

Visions of Ancient Egypt: Art, Design and the Cultural Imagination is running at Laing Art Gallery until April 29 with displays of art, jewellery, costumes, photographs and film

Harrison Marshall, 28, says he returned to London from abroad only to find the cost of renting had soared beyond belief

Despite already having access to the vast Government Art Collection - some 14,700 works - the purchase of 13 'fine art photographs' was made at the taxpayers’ expense in March 2021

Harrison Marshall said the move ‘highlights just how crazy it is to live in central London’.

Cody TheCreative began the penny painting project in 2016 and has painted many popular characters on the coins.

River City Bangkok on Charoen Krung Road will be transformed into a bouquet of art showcasing nearly 200 works from tomorrow to Feb 24. All works will later go under the hammer during the "Follow Your Heart" art auction on Feb 25 at 2pm.

An international team of codebreakers say they have found and deciphered the long-lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots. The documents were found mislabelled in the digital archive of the French national library.

Moments of profound absorption, a glance, a letter… the mystery and stillness of the Dutch master’s work deepens the closer you get in this near-perfect show

7 people lost their liberty

Seeing himself as a spray painter with a cause, Christian Guémy uses his street art to spread a message of solidarity from France to the people of Ukraine. His stencil works, first painted in the streets of war-damaged cities, are now on display at the French parliament as part of…