Arts & Culture
Selfie sticks banned at National Gallery in London
The National Gallery in London has joined multiple museums around the world in imposing a ban on selfie sticks. The gallery says it has placed...
Nelson Shanks painted Monica Lewinsky reference in Bill Clinton’s official presidential portrait
Nelson Shanks, who painted the portrait of President Bill Clinton that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, revealed he included a reference to Monica...
Selfie stick banned from Smithsonian museums and gardens
The Smithsonian, the largest research and museum group in the world, has banned the selfie stick at Washington’s museums and gardens. "This is a preventive...
Yasar Kemal dies in Istanbul aged 91
Turkish literary icon Yasar Kemal has died on February 28 in an Istanbul hospital following respiratory and organ failure at the age of 91. Yasar...
Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads sculptures sell for record $4.3 million
A group of 12 gold-plated animal head sculptures by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has sold for £2.8 million ($4.3 million) at the Phillips auction...
Gauguin painting sells for record $300 million becoming most expensive artwork ever sold
A Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold for record $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee to publish To Kill a Mockingbird sequel after 60 years
Harper Lee’s unpublished novel Go Set a Watchman is to be released 60 years after the author put it aside to write To Kill...
Israel Yinon dies on stage during Switzerland concert
Conductor Israel Yinon has collapsed and died during a concert performance in Switzerland on January 29. The 59-year-old Israeli conductor was at a concert given...
Tutankhamun’s beard glued back on with epoxy after suffering damages during cleaning
Tutankhamun’s blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of the pharaoh was stuck on with epoxy after it was knocked during cleaning,...
Pablo Neruda case: Chile opens new investigation into poet’s death
Chile has opened a new investigation into the death in 1973 of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. Government spokesman Francisco Ugas said there were indications...
Claude Frank dies in New York aged 89
Classical pianist Claude Frank has died at the age of 89 at his home in New York. The musician died on December 27 due to...
Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung publicly berates parents of coughing child during concert
South Korean violinist Kyung-Wha Chung has shocked audiences at the Royal Festival Hall by publicly berating the parents of a coughing child. The 66-year-old musician...
Frida Kahlo’s garden and studio to be recreated at New York Botanical Garden
Frida Kahlo's garden and studio will be recreated at the New York Botanical Garden in 2015. Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life will be the late...
William Shakespeare First Folio discovered in Saint-Omer library
William Shakespeare’s First Folio, regarded as the most important book in English literature, has been discovered in a library of a small French town. The...
University of Texas buys Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s personal archive
University of Texas in Austin has acquired the personal archive of Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including manuscripts for 10 of his...
Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi art accepted by Bern Art Museum
Bern Art Museum in Switzerland has agreed to accept hundreds of artworks bequeathed by German Nazi-era art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt. Many of the works are...
Hitler watercolor painting sells for $161,000 at Nuremberg auction
An Adolf Hitler’s watercolor painting has sold at an auction in Germany for 130,000 euros ($161,000). The 1914 painting of Munich's city hall was put...
Bunny Mellon’s blue diamond breaks world record at Sotheby’s auction
Bunny Mellon’s blue diamond has fetched $32.6 million at an auction in New York, breaking the world auction record for any diamond of its...
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed, White Flower No 1 sets auction record for female artist
Georgia O'Keeffe’s Jimson Weed, White Flower No 1 has sold for $44.4 million at Sotheby’s auction, setting a record for an artwork by a...
Sotheby’s CEO William Ruprecht resigns after 14 years
Sotheby's CEO William F. Ruprecht has announced his resignation after 14 years in the role. William Ruprecht, 58, would leave his post by "mutual agreement"...
Andy Warhol’s Triple Elvis fetches $82 million at New York auction
Andy Warhol’s work Triple Elvis has sold for $81.9 million at a Christie’s auction of post-war and contemporary art in New York. The 1963 work,...
The Bible named world’s most influential book
A British survey for the Folio Society has named the Bible has been named the world's most influential book. The YouGov poll asked people to...
Doubts over Vincent van Gogh suicide in new biography
According to a 2011 biography, Van Gogh: The Life, Vincent van Gogh did not kill himself. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith claim that, contrary...
Andy Warhol exhibition featuring more than 100 artworks opens at Tate Liverpool
An Andy Warhol exhibition featuring more than 100 artworks has opened in Liverpool, the UK. Called Transmitting Andy Warhol, the Tate Liverpool exhibition focuses on...
Tom Hanks to publish stories inspired by personal collection of vintage typewriters
Tom Hanks will publish a book of short stories inspired by his personal collection of vintage typewriters. The actor said: "I've been collecting typewriters for...
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