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Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: JR's homage to Miami, Naama Tsabar pulls some strings and Johnny Depp is all ears

Plus: Michael Seri's mellow-yellow muse, why Fatboy Slim's never felt so good, and Ezra Collective wow White Cube crowd

David Hockney’s Bigger Christmas Trees cover Battersea Power Station

Brit artist’s animation is centrepiece of Apple’s mega Christmas campaign

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British Museum ends the year as the butt of the joke

The annual Christmas cracker joke competition by the British TV channel Gold took a swipe at the theft scandal that rocked the institution

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Sign of the times—artist Nan Goldin is no. 1 in the Art Review Power 100 List

The annual ranking of the art world crème de la crème is dominated by artists

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Rachel Whiteread’s Christmas tree lights up Mayfair

Turner prizewinner’s festive work stands outside the plush hotel, The Connaught

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‘It’s Robbie’—Banksy (apparently) reveals first name in 2003 BBC interview

Chat during Turf War show also touches on ‘microwave meal’ art—and Charles Saatchi

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Pop art—sports star Tony Adams and H from Steps become curators

The pair were among the celebrity “selectors”—together with curator Péjú Oshin and sculptor Julian Wild—behind the 25th ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London

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Tim Burton exhibition in London brings Edward Scissorhands and Batman to life

Film director's ghoulish illustrations and paintings to go on show at the Design Museum

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Wallace Collection birthday bash for Grayson Perry

Potter will celebrate his 65th birthday in 2025 with a show at the London museum

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Bond actor Pierce Brosnan gets first UK solo show

Nottingham gallery is showing paintings by the Irish star

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National Gallery bicentenary films include a Van Gogh treat (plus personal reflections on the collection)

'My National Gallery, London' tells the story of the institution through the eyes of the staff

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The Hockney cat that got the cream—ceramic moggie sells for £112,000

Black and white animal effigy was a gift for courteous couple

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Fashion off: Naomi Campbell and Barbie to have major London shows

They will each take the spotlight at a South Kensington museum next summer

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From Keith Haring to Gabriel Massan—Madonna celebrates art stars at London concert

The Like a Virgin singer looked to the past and future at debut gig of Celebration tour

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Frieze London diary: from a star-studded anniversary bash to Madonna's tribute to her son

Plus, artists on artists at the National Gallery, Maggi Hambling's eye-popping evocations and a sleepwalking sculpture in Regent's Park

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Frieze London diary: from a moment with Andy Murray to the answer to a Paula Rego mystery

Plus, a cross-generational collector chat and an artistic airing of London's sexual geography

Frieze London diary: cute bomb dogs and a return to order in the VIP queue

Plus, a moving talk with artist Nick Cave and an unholy mistake at Allied Editions

Frieze London diary: Marina Abramović's Extraordinary Women tea party and Hiroshi Sugimoto's love for a Beatles hit

Plus, an artist-filled prize ceremony in Piccadilly, Thom Browne at the V&A and an entry from the new ”undercover gallerist”

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Lipstick and lashes at the Louvre

Lancôme drew inspiration from celebrated works such as the Venus de Milo and the Sleeping Hermaphrodite

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Is Damien Hirst's Medusa dessert a delicious work of art?

The artist's epic sculpture of Medusa at Bacchanalia in London has inspired a new £50 pudding

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Kim Kardashian outbid by American football legend Tom Brady for George Condo work at charity auction—but both won in the end

A star-studded fundraising gala for the criminal-justice charity Reform Alliance included a high-stakes auction and blackjack tournament

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Russell Tovey rocks up at Claridge’s to present first Royal Academy Schools art prize

Daria Blum was given the £30,000 award by the artist Marina Abramović

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Sarah Lucas’s cheeky sculptures bring light relief at Tate Britain

Guests at the packed exhibition launch included Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant and fashion icon Pam Hogg

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Escape from the British Museum—tale of a teapot returning to China goes viral

Two social media influencers—Pancake Fruit and Summer Sister—are behind the series posted on Douyin

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Art crowd attends Piccadilly church for Rachel Jones’s new opera piece

Hey, Maudie draws on classical tropes, West African traditions, jazz and gospel

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Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy and Tracey Emin turn up for Marina Abramović's blockbuster RA show

Visitors queued to walk through Imponderabilia, the 1977 piece featuring a naked couple

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Defeated French general or noble Parliamentarian? Theresa May portrait divides opinion

The £28,000 portrait of the MP for Maidenhead will hang in Portcullis House