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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
