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The Secretary of State for Culture has paintings by Lubaina Himid and Charles Mozley in his office – but perhaps video art is more his thing?
If Coventry Council votes to buy an empty IKEA store next week, several national collections could be heading to the city
Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world
It's your chance to own part of the Louvre – and spruce up your backyard with plants of impeccable provenance
The sculptor is urging us to get creative in lockdown – and even better, he's been channelling the late, great Tony Hart on live TV
The original foyer doors of Abbey Road Studios are up for auction – which isn’t quite the same as owning the zebra crossing, but still
The hit French series on Netflix sees the Paris museum's security breached in spectacular fashion – but stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 couldn't have been easier
A meme of Bernie at the inauguration has (predictably) seen the senator popping up in everyone’s favourite paintings
Charlotte York-Goldenblatt stepped away from her career in the original series, but perhaps she's ready to return to the white cube in this year’s reboot?
It is perhaps unsurprising that a show that takes such a creative approach to costume drama plays fast and loose with its locations
