200 items from Joan Rivers’s New York penthouse to go up for auction
The items for sale, which range from $500 to $200,000, include Cartier jewels, and a custom engraved Tiffany’s water bowl used by Rivers’s dog Spike
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World art market stalls for first time in years
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
Saving America’s most architecturally stunning homes
Created by the masters of modernism, the mid-century homes of California are too small for today’s super-rich – hence a conference about how to preserve them
Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
The six fashion tricks men pulled on the red carpet at this year’s Oscars
From Jared Leto’s corsage to Pharrell’s bleached hair, here are the style flourishes that stood out
Top 10 amazing facts you didn’t know about Coco Chanel
London Fashion Week starts on Thursday so mark it by getting acquainted with fashion designer extraordinaire Coco Chanel, from her humble beginnings to her last words on her deathbed