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How a tiny Faberge elephant seized by the Bolsheviks ended up at Buckingham Palace

For 80 years a clockwork elephant designed by the famous House of Faberge stood forgotten in a cabinet at Buckingham Palace, until now

13 Nov 2015 | 3 Comments
A history of the world in funny puns
A 19th-century wood engraving of the Gunpowder Plot
Comedy

Martin Chilton guides you through the history of the world, including Guy Fawkes, in puns

13 Nov 2015 | 25 Comments
Mark Hudson: Spending $170m on a Modigliani today is like buying the Crown of Thorns in 1400
Liu Yiqian and Amedeo Modigliani's masterpiece Nu couche

Modern art sales are like the medieval market in holy relics, yet when the bubble bursts these works will still have one redeeming feature

11 Nov 2015 | 24 Comments
Meet the Chinese billionaire behind the record Modigliani purchase
Chinese antique collector Liu Yiqian,

Liu Yiqian is now one of the art world's most prominent collectors after he bought Modigliani's Reclining Nude

10 Nov 2015
Modigliani’s Nu Couché sold for record £113 million
Modigliani’s Nu Couché, which was sold for a record £113 million

Amedeo Modigliani’s painting of a sultry nude becomes second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

10 Nov 2015 | 35 Comments
30 great one-liners
Groucho Marx in 1933
Comedy

Martin Chilton picks out some sparkling one-liners

09 Nov 2015
Picasso breaks record to soothe fears at Sotheby's
Gallery assistants hang with the painting

La Gommeuse sells for $67.5 million (£45 million), easing fears of a chill in market

06 Nov 2015
Chinese artist Tao Hongjing reveals he's a Frenchman called Alexandre
French artist Alexandre Ouairy poses in front of his paintings during preparations for an exhibition at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing

As a struggling artist living in Shanghai, Alexandre Ouairy came up with the perfect business plan - a Chinese alter ego whose work sold for far greater sums

06 Nov 2015
The Leeds bungalow treasure trove has got us valuing everything we own
The Firths' collection of 21 pots by Han Coper

Precious objets are better when out from behind glass, like the Firths' pots collection

05 Nov 2015 | Comment
Chipped 'worthless' vase fetches £114,500
The Chinese porcelain vase reached 700 times its estimated value

Chinese vase mistakenly believed to be a fake by leading experts and worth just £150 astonishes auctioneers as it fetches £114,500

05 Nov 2015 | 5 Comments
Sting sells collection of modern masters
British singer Sting and his wife Trudie Styler
Art

Sting and his wife Trudy Styler are to auction their collection of work after selling their £19m London home

28 Oct 2015 | 15 Comments
Afren administrators sell off large art collection


Pieces of African art will be auctioned off by Bonhams as administrators try to shrink collapsed oil giant's $1.9bn debt pile

26 Oct 2015 | 1 Comment
Agincourt: 600th anniversary


Celebrating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt

25 Oct 2015 | 33 Comments
Lego bans Ai Weiwei from using bricks for 'political' artwork in Australia
Ai Weiwei at the Whitworth

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says Lego refused to supply him with bricks for a 'political work' depicting human rights figures in Australia, suggesting the toymaker did not want to offend Beijing

25 Oct 2015
Subterranean London
Peel back the layers under a London street and you'll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of hand-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations and World War II evacuation shelters. For the book 'Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital' Bradley L. Garrett worked with explorers to collect an astonishing array of images documenting forbidden infiltrations into the secret bowels of the city. Above, the River Effra, which is mainly underground: It was thought that a coffin found floating in the Thames in the Victorian era had been carried by the Effra from West Norwood Cemetery

In pics: Bradley L. Garrett documenting forbidden infiltrations into the secret bowels of the city

24 Oct 2015
David Hockney in pictures
The many layers of David Hockney, in pictures

David Hockney's celebrated portrait 'George Lawson and Wayne Sleep 1972-5' went on display for the first time in the UK at the Tate Modern in a new free display of the artist's double portraits. We look at the many layers of Britain's greatest living painter, David Hockney.

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