Galleries to split Â£100m bequest
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Scion of grocery dynasty leaves National Gallery and Tate a treasure trove of fabulous paintings
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FREDERICTON (CP) - The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is getting major financial support from the New Brunswick government in its battle to keep millions of dollars in paintings from the heirs of the late Lord Beaverbrook.
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Thieves in Brazil steal two paintings said to be worth $100m (Â£50m), including a work by Pablo Picasso.
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Media & professional: Â· Threshold for full grant moved up to Â£25,000  Â· Student loan 'repayment holidays' proposed
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The government is planning new powers to help it double the money seized from crooks to Â£250m a year.
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A giant sculpture of a spider by artist Louise Bourgeois is donated to London's Tate Modern gallery.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, given by Britain's World War Two leader to U.S. President Harry Truman, is expected to fetch up to 500,000 pounds ($1 million) at auction in December.
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales gets a Â£1.9m cash injection to wipe out its debts.
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Britain's prestigious Tate galleries are so short of money to buy new acquisitions that they have persuaded several leading artists to hand over their works for free to maintain the collections.
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A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175,000 pounds (250,000 euros, 330,000 dollars) at auction.
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More than 20 paintings by European masters hanging in galleries in the Czech Republic should be returned to the Canadian heirs of the Jewish man who collected them, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Moving the Barnes collection to a new location would afford a fresh perspective on the art.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling says he is looking at ways of guaranteeing people's savings of up to Â£100,000.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- A new scheme is being introduced in the United Kingdom where museums will be able to claim Gift Aid on both the admission fee and the donation.
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Once the bid for Abbey is completed, SCH plans to offer Abbey employees 100 of the Spanish bank&#39;s shares, &quot;as a means of leveling the interests of employees at both banks,&quot; Botin said.
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London's Tate Modern, one of the world's  biggest art galleries, housed in a cavernous old power station,  is going to get even bigger, its director said on Thursday.