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In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators.

From R-rated comedies to award-winning dramas, here's our list of 10 actors who were fully nude in a movie and why it worked.

Art school contemporary of David Hockney shunned self-promotion but is now subject of retrospective

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

The Colony Room was a club for the rich, famous and often the ruined. Charlotte Lytton raises a toast as it opens once again

He wasn’t just a magnificent actor – he was also a raconteur, mentor, joker, engineer and pilot. Friends including Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Simon Callow, Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus and Rupert Goold pay tribute to the star

If, as speculated, the PM scraps inheritance tax, the stench of money will just grow stronger

Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’

In the early modern period, wolves, beavers, and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland.

Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English cleric and…

The generational stage actor speaks to Chris Harvey about Timothée Chalamet, his ‘failure’ at the Globe, and his new play ‘Dr Semmelweis’