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Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney
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The seventy-metre eleventh-century embroidery of the Norman conquest of England has arrived in London for the first time in almost a thousand years. France has lent it to the British Museum under an intergovernmental agreement for the period from September 2026 to July 2027, while the museum in
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Contemporary art has been shown on the pedestal, built in the 19th century for an equestrian statue that was never installed, since 1998, and since 2005 the Mayor of London's office has chosen a new work for the plinth every two years. "Lady in Blue" is
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On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery. By then Charles and Diana had already been living apart for a year and a half. That same evening Princess Diana arrived at
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It is proposed to name an airport after Queen Camilla. I suggest we confine ourselves to the baggage reclaim hall
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The British television channel Channel 4 has released a documentary, The Great ADHD Myth? In it, the NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton tries to establish whether ADHD is a genuine developmental disorder or a social construct, and whether children should be given psychiatric medication at all. Perhaps the best illustration of
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On 28 July 1968 the Beatles, instead of working in the studio, staged a spontaneous shoot at various places around the city, with no script, no route and hardly any preparation. The aim was to recover from the gruelling recording of their ninth album and at last to document new
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Cam and Di in the very same earrings. Though, judging by the fact that Camilla's ears are not pierced, there are two possibilities: either they were glued on for her, or remade as clip-ons. The original pair was presented to Alexandra of Denmark by the City of
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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to the Artist Rooms collection, which is jointly managed by the London-based Tate group and National Galleries Scotland. Rauschenberg is known above all for his «Combines» of the post-war years, but all three donated works belong to
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The mechanics of the project are as follows: a library reader in Derbyshire borrows a "community card" just as he would borrow a book, for a week, free of charge. The card gives entry to the house, the garden, the farm and the playground for a group of
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At the end of June Buckingham Palace published an annual financial report of little interest to the general public. But here is what is interesting: in the description of the monarch's duties a new line has appeared, to the effect that the King "protects the space for
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The sinister portrait of Charles III by Jonathan Yeo, unveiled in 2024, in which the king's figure drowned in the crimson haze of the underworld, has made it into Buckingham Palace after all. The Royal Collection has accepted as a gift a large preparatory study for that portrait,