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Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book "Orbital" after winning the Booker Prize award 2024, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize
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Ethan James Green
‘Refresh and reveal’: Celebrities strip off for latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar
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Sotheby's
Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
Modern and contemporary fake artworks including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol are displayed following an Italian Carabinieri operation against a large-scale pan-European forgery network, in Pisa, Italy, November 9, 2024.
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Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy
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Sotheby’s
AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million
A magnificent and exceptionally rare pair of wucai 'fish' jars and covers, Marks and period of Jiajing
Sotheby’s
Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million
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Cecilia Blomdahl
What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
Charli XCX shared her new remix album with a few hundred fans at a special event at Storm King in New Windsor, New York, on Oct. 10, 2024.
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Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
Director TIM BURTON and MICHAEL KEATON on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures’ comedy, “BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE,”
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The enduring allure of Tim Burton’s macabre world
Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha
‘This is what it means to be from Gaza’: Poet captures people’s stories of life, love and loss
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Illustration by Kate Copeland
Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness
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Mark Blower
For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
Image caption and credit:Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849,‘Valse,’attributed to Chopin : autograph manuscript, between 1815 and1849, recto.The Morgan Library & Museum, Bequest of Arthur Satz, 2019, Satz 1.10***. Photography by CarmenGonzález Fraile,2024.
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Lost Chopin music unearthed nearly 200 years after composer’s death
Research at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire has revealed a staggering array of carved ritual protection, or apotropaic marks (sometimes called ‘witches marks’), one of the most identified at any of the charity’s 400 sites, English Heritage announced today (29 October). Over the course of two years, long-time English Heritage volunteer, Rick Berry, has discovered and mapped around 20 carvings at the Tudor property, once visited by Henry VIII and his then Queen, Catherine Howard.
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Huge number of witches’ marks found at Tudor house in ‘astonishing’ discovery
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) "The Girls," 1930
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Curators are unraveling the mysteries of the belated art icon Tamara de Lempicka
A tiny house adorned with erotic frescoes has been uncovered at the Italian archeological site of Pompeii.
Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Tiny house with elaborate – and erotic – frescoes unearthed at Pompeii