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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
Whisky and museums are a few of your roving correspondent’s favourite things – and now the V&A Dundee is bringing them together
Banksy has decorated a wall in Bristol with a sneeze – leading Rakewell to ponder the art of sneezing
The first commercially produced Christmas card was published in 1843 – and you can have one for £5,000 or more (stamps not included)
