Middle class people dominate arts, survey finds
Findings also reveal extent to which gender and ethnicity influence prospects of entering and gaining fair deal in industry
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Sex sells: why Modigliani’s 98-year-old hymn to lust is worth $170m
Painted through an absinthe haze as the first world war raged, Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché mixes modernist thrills with age-old hedonism. No wonder it still seduces
Dutch museum achieves the impossible with new Hieronymus Bosch show
To mark the artist’s 500th anniversary, the director of small Dutch museum secures 20 of 25 surviving panels by ‘the devil’s painter’
Swiss couple Iwan and Manuela Wirth top art power list
Wirths praised for changing model of how art is bought and sold, while Ai Weiwei ranks second and Nicholas Serota falls to fifth
Inside the mind of the museum-goer
Why do some people spend all day in a gallery while others dash around in an hour? Welcome to the latest obsession of the world’s biggest museums
Winning the uber jackpot. 5 things to buy from an investment perspective
Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once – Paulo Coelho – What would you buy if you won the lottery? What to do after winning a hyper jackpot? This fantasy exercise is always really amusing, conjuring images of … Read more