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Literature

Da Vinci bear drawing expected to fetch up to £12m at auction

A small drawing of a bear’s head by Leonardo da Vinci is expected to sell for up to £12m ($16.7m) at a London auction on Thursday. Measuring 7x7cm, Head of

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Two artworks chosen for display in London’s Trafalgar Square

A sculpture symbolizing Britain’s complex colonial ties and an artwork featuring the faces of 850 transgender people are set to go on display in Trafalgar Square, one of London’s highest-profile

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Significant Edward Lear poems discovered

Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection. The discovery was made by University of Nottingham PhD student

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Passionate Plath love letters to Hughes up for sale

Possessions of Sylvia Plath from the happier early days of her doomed marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, including ardent love letters and their wedding rings, are to go on

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Mini Statue of Liberty arrives in the US, retracing big sister’s steps

A scaled-down replica of the Statue of Liberty that has retraced the journey made over a century ago by its big sister was erected on Ellis Island in New York

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Fragonard painting ‘forgotten’ by its owners sells for $9 million

A”forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré

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The Obama portraits are on display at the site of their first date

Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the former

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Removing Teddy Roosevelt’s statue is the worst kind of pandering

In life, he was a Bull Moose. Over one hundred years since his death, however, President Teddy Roosevelt is being bullied himself by woke activists who seek the erasure of

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110th birth anniversary of Sufia Kamal today

Sunday marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of poet and feminist Begum Sufia Kamal. Also revered as the trailblazing woman rights activist, poet and  educationist who took part in

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Valuable 350-year-old oil paintings found in skip

German police have issued an appeal for information after two valuable 17th Century paintings were discovered dumped in a road-side skip. The oil paintings are believed to be by Dutch

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