THE porter takes my bags from the boot, ushering me into a honey-coloured building lapping up the late summer sunlight, and offers to park my car.

IN A GALLERY shop the other day, surrounded by Banksy prints and street artists that were so cutting edge that nobody but the gallery owner had heard of them, there were several prints of Marilyn Monroe by the pop art god Peter Blake.

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A NUDE photo of the new high-profile wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy smashed its auction estimate as it sold for more than $90,000 (€57,532) in New York, Christie’s said.

Legendary American photographer Richard Avedon has died. He was 81.