Â£100m artworks left to galleries
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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It's not often that you come across a Caravaggio or Van Gogh while walking around London's Soho, but for the next 12 weeks, the National Gallery is taking its masterpieces to the streets. In a bid to give the public a taste of the collection, the gallery has hung life-sized reproductions around the capital. Each painting is framed and accompanied by an information plaque, and passersby can phone a number for an audio guide of the works. Here's how Londoners  reacted to the famous works on their doorstep ...
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Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet stolen from a Zurich museum are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (112 million euros, 164 million dollars), police said Monday.
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Ten original works by English graffiti artist Banksy, including an image of Lenin on roller skates and an elephant carrying a large bomb, are predicted to fetch up to $600,000 Wednesday at an auction.
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Britain's art heritage is draining away and its museums can no longer compete against foreign rivals in bidding for old masters, research revealed on Friday.
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One of Turner's finest watercolours is to remain in the UK after a fund-raising campaign by the Tate.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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Major heritage projects, from the National Gallery's attempted purchase of a set of Poussin masterpieces to the British Museum's proposed building of a new exhibition space, could be threatened because of lottery money diverted to the Olympics.
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Two masterpieces by Edvard Munch, which were stolen two years ago, are about to go on public exhibition.
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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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England's museums and galleries should give people access to more artworks, the government says.
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Artists Gilbert and George believe their 2007 retrospective in London proves their work has endured.
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Arts & entertainment: More than 100 masterpieces from Russia are due to go on show at the RA next year - but there is a problem.
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One of the world&#39;s greatest art museums, the Uffizi gallery in Florence, may be forced to close by huge government spending cuts, the Italian heritage minister said yesterday.
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Collectors have consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art for the November sales in New York.
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An exhibition of art treasures which was almost prevented from going ahead opens its doors in London.