Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have had to move their wedding reception to the Arsenale after a protest group threatened to fill the canal with crocodiles
The European Fine Art Fair plays a prominent role in the ‘Sex and the City’ sequel’s latest season, but its workings have left Rakewell scratching his head
A French furniture-forger has been convicted for his role in a major scam, but there’s no denying that he has an excellent nickname
French climate activists who stole the president’s waxwork from the Musée Grevin in Paris are no dummies when it comes to protest
On 18 June, you can eat in a Twin Peaks’-themed diner, see David Lynch’s art in Prague – and bid on the director's very own coffee machine
Is it time for the Smithsonian pandas to roll over? An agreement with Saudi Arabia means there‘s a new mammalian ambassador in town
With the beloved Long Island store BookHampton bought up by the super gallerist, will the summer crowd’s reading material take an artier turn?
The shortlisted designs for a memorial to the late monarch in St James’s Park have been announced – but can any of them be complete without a corgi?
Scenes from the British home front during the Second World War have been knitted to life by some 200 volunteers – and are now on display to mark VE Day
A Dutch municipality has accidentally thrown a valuable print of Queen Beatrix out with the trash – but would the Pop art maestro really have minded?
Pope Francis has set Catalonia’s architect-in-chief on the path to sainthood, but if the Sagrada Família is anything to go by, we could be in for a long wait
To mark its 260th birthday Baccarat has mixed a €37,000 cocktail, which would make even Louis XV, who granted the crystal-maker its warrant, pause before drinking up
Posters of the artist’s upcoming show have been pulled for featuring a cigarette – but he’s hardly the only painter who’s been partial to a puff
The national psychodrama sparked by the destruction of a Paddington Bear statue raises a question: when did we start taking fictional characters so seriously?
Making Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender look good in ‘Black Bag’ isn’t exactly hard, but making one of the UK’s ugliest buildings look attractive is an act of cinematic sorcery
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
The Florence museum’s change to its ticketing system may well result in increased waiting times for visitors. But is queuing really such an ordeal?
On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards, disappointed nominees in the best director category should take comfort from an unusual set of candles
Impressionists and post-Impressionists rule among the paintings in Disney+ series ‘Paradise’, but it’s a Sargent that becomes a talking point
The New York Historical’s display about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, is a reminder of what freedom looks like and how easily it can be taken away
Posh is showing a raft of contemporary artworks at her London showroom, but will the Richters distract from the beautiful clothes on sale?
The late, great singer had noble origins – and the way she negotiated the machinations of Warhol’s Factory would put most courtiers to shame
After a period of pandalessness and at the end of a momentous week in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian National Zoo presented two new visitors from China to the public
In his memoir, the Pope praises masterpieces of Italian neorealism by Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini – and defends Fellini with some assistance from Pasolini
