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Tate gallery�s �100m bonanza despite recession

17.09.09

The Tate is defying the recession thanks to an astonishing series of gifts and bequests, it was revealed... more

Pigs in a bad place

13.07.09

Death of Long Pig is a diptych portraying the moribund agonies of two white men who have pickled themselves in the exoticism of the South Pacific.... more

Royal Academy to exhibit 800 Van Gogh letters

09.07.09

First major exhibition on Vincent van Gogh in London for more than 40 years will include rarely seen correspondence in which he gives glimpses of his thought processes... more

Celebration as Sotheby's sale tops �100 million

26.06.08

Sotheby's is celebrating after more than £100 million was spent during a night of record-breaking art sales... more

Rare glimpse of 1890s Paris

16.06.08

The Courtauld Gallery is lending rarely seen scenes of Parisian society at the time of Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec for an exhibition in London... more

�20m Van Gogh left on shelf

08.11.07

High profile impressionist paintings failed to sell at auction at Sotheby's in New York prompting fears that art's dizzy boom could be nearing an end. ... more

The art of giving

29.10.07

The National Gallery and the Tate have announced one of the most significant bequests of paintings ever made to the nation.... more

Modern life is hard work

01.08.07

A fun-sized exhibition at the National Gallery of changing work and leisure patterns over the past 400 years encapsulates entire eras within single paintings.... more

Work, rest and play at National's new show

25.07.07

From shepherding in Brittany to ironmongery in Derby, a new free exhibition highlights people at work over the last 400 years.... more

�258m paintings set auction world record

09.11.06

Art went crazy in New York when Impressionist and modernist paintings sold for £258 million in one evening at Christie's.... more

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