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Fans and experts consider whether the artist may have been neurodivergent. Plus: inside the biggest Irish dancing challenge in the world. Here’s what to watch this evening

The only higher public sale remains ‘Salvator Mundi’ by Leonardo da Vinci, which sold in 2017 for $450m at Christie's

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

Zelensky referenced the painting in April 2022 while addressing Spain’s parliament

Other lives: Artist who built installations using domestic objects, from tea trolleys and buttons to cutlery and glass jars

The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show

Auctions will begin in March next year

The Louvre Museum has announced that it has closed one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. This is a further setback for the renowned institution which came under the spotlight last month after a daring jewellery…

A painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress and red heels, once displayed in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home, resurfaces as online attention surges over a viral email about Trump 'blowing Bubba.'

Modernizing the Sully wing is among priorities of the renovation efforts announced in January

Other lives: Artist and teacher whose abstract work took nature as its major stimulus