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Staff at the new multi-million pound Museum of London are looking for a sign - or about 30 of them for an exhibition greeting visitors to the building.

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

Expert in Greek antiques Peter Higgs protests his innocence over theft of gold and jewellery worth tens of millions

Daniel Venes absconded from a Kent hospital and was discovered by French authorities dead on a beach two weeks later.

The London institution is undertaking a security review after items from its collection were found to be missing, stolen or damaged.

The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later

“The mummy itself, however, is dark and has no hair.” 

It is thought around 3,000 priceless items were taken from museum storeroom, ranging from 15th century BC to 19th century AD

Chicago’s public sculpture portfolio is bigger than Cloud Gate. And now is as good a time as any to get around town and see some of it.