A Turner masterpiece of a view over Rome sells for £29.7m at Sotheby’s in London, breaking the artist’s record at auction. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10549980.stm
The National Portrait Gallery launches a £100,000 appeal to help keep in the UK the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10540146.stm
Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg is set to make her West End debut, starring in the musical Sister Act. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10540186.stm
The Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion, designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, is unveiled. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10523626.stm
Art collector Charles Saatchi gifts his Saatchi Gallery and more than 200 works – including Tracey Emin’s My Bed – to the nation. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10476497.stm
British actress Vanessa Redgrave will return to Broadway to star alongside James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy at the John Golden Theatre, it is announced. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10458014.stm
The Ulster Museum in Belfast is announced as the winner of this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10464899.stm
Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman will play former lovers in a BBC Two adaptation of Christopher Reid poem The Song Of Lunch. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10458006.stm
A UK pavilion built for the World Expo in Shanghai wins a prestigious international architecture award. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10447868.stm
Special effects creator Ray Harryhausen offers his life’s work to the National Media Museum in Bradford. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/bradford_and_west_yorkshire/10443618.stm
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