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Kray paintings fetch £16,550
Eight landscapes done by gangster brother Ronnie while in Parkhurst prison are sold at auction in Suffolk
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The interview: Mary Moore
The only child of sculptor Henry Moore, Mary Moore gives a rare interview to Elizabeth Day on the eve of an exhibition of works never before seen in public
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Keep it in the family
Art: Though they lacked the virtuosity of their contemporary Rembrandt, the de Brays were clearly a great art dynasty
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Architecture: To be frank, Frank, it's daft yet delightful
Architecture: Gehry's genius - and his folly - are clear to see in his belated UK debut at the Serpentine Gallery
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Richard Ingleby: Scotland prospers with growing appreciation of modern art
Richard Ingleby: We've seen a gradual eroding of prejudices that suggested Scottish collectors only support a certain type of 'traditional' Scottish art
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Amy Adams, Lil Wayne, Pamela Anderson
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
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Rob Walker's 'Buying In'
That Americans are consumed by consumerism will surprise few. But as Rob Walker points out in "Buying In," few will admit that they frequently succumb to salesmanship, and that marketing produces needs they never knew they had.
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Jess Winfield's 'My Name is Will'
To say that Jess Winfield knows his Shakespeare is laughable understatement. Upside down - boy, he knows him, inside out, and round and round.
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A love of home bordering on madness
In her book, Miranda Seymour writes about Thrumpton Hall and the extraordinary hold it had on her father, George FitzRoy Seymour.
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Stellar results for Christie's mask deep fault lines in market
Christie's had sales of £1.8 billion for the first half of 2008, but a closer look shows real problems for the art market.
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From a forger, an unapologetic memoir
Despite her admitted fakery of more than 400 letters, Lee Israel insists that her own memoir is true to the facts.
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Correggio and the sensuality of the saints
Correggio, an Italian Renaissance artist known for depicting humanity with freshness and sympathy, is the subject of an unprecedented gathering of more than 50 paintings and drawings at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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In defense of Enlightenment idealogy, and ideals
Susan Neiman's "Moral Clarity" is a sustained defense of a particular set of values, and of a moral vocabulary that enables us to express them.
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From the erotic domain, an aerobic trend in China
A growing number of Chinese women are experimenting with the country's new, and most controversial, fitness activity: pole dancing.
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A tedious return to 'Brideshead Revisited'
Julian Jarrold's rendition of "Brideshead Revisited," is necessarily shorter and less faithful to Waugh's book than the earlier miniseries, and also more cinematic. It is also tedious, confused and banal.
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Trying to pay the interest on his debt to society
An ingenuous 24-year-old man-child is at the center of John Crowley's wrenching melodrama "Boy A."
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How many superheroes does it take to tire a genre?
"The Dark Knight," "Iron Man" and "Hancock" test the limits of the superhero film.
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Christian Bale, Sienna Miller
A round-up of the day's celebrity news
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Museum in Gaza to display area's rich cultural history
When Jawdat Khoudary opens the first ever museum of archaeology in Gaza this month, it will be an act of Palestinian patriotism, showing how this increasingly poor and isolated coastal strip was once a thriving multicultural crossroad.
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Jennifer Haigh's 'The Condition' and Sadie Jones' 'The Outcast'
"The Condition," Haigh's third novel, revolves around one family and its tragic secret. "The Outcast," a work of nonfiction, explores the consequences of hypocrisy and silenced speech.
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