David Hockney painting earns record $90.3m for living artist
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) beats $58.4m record set by Jeff Koons
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Welsh slate region to be nominated as Unesco world heritage site
Heritage minister says Gwynedd quarries shaped buildings across the world
Rankin’s best photograph: a supermodel in a cow mask
‘I didn’t think models were being treated as people. So we borrowed a farm, put some in masks – and shot them in a cow barn then a pigsty’
Tate Britain to hold major Van Gogh exhibition in 2019
Sunflowers, Self-Portrait and Starry Night Over the Rhône among works to be shown