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• Category: Arts & Culture
  • John Lennon guitar sells for $408,000 at Julien's Auctions May 19th, 2013
  • Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartments May 17th, 2013
  • Monika Pon-su-san: The Chinese Girl in Vladimir Tretchikoff's painting May 8th, 2013
  • Bob Brozman suicide: Guitarist and ethnomusicologist found dead aged 59 at his Santa Cruz home May 4th, 2013
  • Harper Lee sues literary agent Samuel Pinkus over To Kill A Mockingbird copyright May 4th, 2013
  • 1913 Liberty Head nickel sells for $3.17 million at Heritage auction in Chicago April 27th, 2013
  • Iain Banks writes on Banksophilia about astounding messages of support over his terminal cancer April 24th, 2013
  • Umayyad Mosque minaret destroyed in Aleppo clashes April 24th, 2013
  • Storm Thorgerson dead: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon album designer dies aged 69 April 18th, 2013
  • Bay Psalm Book: First book printed in America expected to fetch $30 million April 18th, 2013
  • Princie Diamond: world's top pink diamond sold for $39.3 million at New York auction April 17th, 2013
  • Pulitzer Prize 2013: Adam Johnson wins fiction prize for North Korea novel The Orphan Master's Son April 16th, 2013
  • Angelina Jolie topless picture with white horse goes for sale at Christie's auction in London April 15th, 2013
  • Pope John Paul II giant statue to be unveiled in Poland April 13th, 2013
  • Maria Tallchief, New York prima ballerina, dies at 88 April 12th, 2013
  • Hopi tribe masks auction goes ahead in Paris April 12th, 2013
  • Louvre closed due to pickpockets April 10th, 2013
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art receives $1 billion Cubist art donation from Leonard Lauder April 10th, 2013
  • Pablo Neruda remains to be exhumed in murder probe April 8th, 2013
  • Movie Star News Collection: The largest collection of old Hollywood photography on auction at Guernsey's April 7th, 2013
  • Rijksmuseum to re-open after 10 years of restoration April 4th, 2013
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the only person to have won Oscar and Booker, dies aged 85 April 4th, 2013
  • Iain Banks has terminal gallbladder cancer April 3rd, 2013
  • JRR Tolkien curse ring exhibited at The Vyne April 3rd, 2013
  • Franz Welser-Moest collapses while conducting at Vienna State Opera April 1st, 2013
  • Amazon buys Goodreads website March 29th, 2013
  • Louvre tops list of most visited art museums of 2012 March 28th, 2013
  • Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass box at MoMA in New York March 24th, 2013
  • Bebo Valdes dies in Sweden at the age of 94 March 23rd, 2013
  • Chinua Achebe, renowned Nigerian writer, dies in US at the age of 82 March 22nd, 2013
  • Mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens dies three months shy of her 100th birthday March 22nd, 2013
  • Vladimir Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl portrait nears £1 million mark at London auction March 20th, 2013
  • Author James Herbert dies aged 69 March 20th, 2013
  • Balshoi Ballet "is just a giant brothel for oligarchs", claims former soloist Anastasia Volochkova March 20th, 2013
  • Chinese bowl originally bought for $3 fetches $2.2 million at Sotheby's auction March 20th, 2013
  • Toyo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize March 19th, 2013
  • Sergei Filin may recover sight after acid attack March 16th, 2013
  • Titanic violin played by Wallace Hartley is genuine March 16th, 2013
  • Vienna Philharmonic to publish details of its Nazi past March 10th, 2013
  • Pavel Dmitrichenko confesses to Bolshoi acid attack on Sergei Filin March 6th, 2013
  • Pavel Dmitrichenko arrested over Bolshoi acid attack March 5th, 2013
  • Bolshoi acid attack suspect questioned in Moscow March 5th, 2013
  • Composer Armando Trovajoli dies aged 95 March 2nd, 2013
  • Pianist Van Cliburn dies aged 78 February 27th, 2013
  • Rudyard Kipling unpublished poems discovered February 27th, 2013
  • Stephane Hessel dies at the age of 95 February 27th, 2013
  • Cleotha Staples of gospel group The Staple Singers dies aged 78 February 24th, 2013
  • Magic Slim dies in Chicago at the age of 75 February 23rd, 2013
  • Hilary Mantel attacks Kate Middleton branding her a plastic princess February 19th, 2013