The Sunrise Ruby, a “pigeon’s blood” hued stone in a ring mounted by Cartier at Sotheby’s, Geneva on May 12 ($12-18 million)

You have got to follow what’s in your heart. If more people did what they love every day there would be a lot less trouble in the world.

Francis Bacon’s Three Lives of Lucian Freud is set to break his own record of $86 million, Des O’Sullivan reports.

THINK New Year’s Eve, and New York comes to mind. Images of Times Square lit up like a disco ball, of crowds a million-strong cheering as a glittering sphere (covered in 2,688 Waterford crystals) descends into the ‘crossroads of the world’.

WHAT sound does a bubble make just before it bursts?

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has one of theworld’s best art collections but is without a family to inherit it. Where will it go, asks Blake Gopnik

Robbie Williams has commissioned paintings of his dead dogs.

Seán Scully insists his marriage and fatherhood have lifted the gloom in his monumental paintings, reports Marc O’Sullivan

CATHERINE Zeta-Jones and Douglas Hodge were winners at the Tony Awards in New York, picking up gongs for best actress and best actor in a musical.

AN ARTIST is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have.

A collection of abstract paintings by legendary crooner Frank Sinatra will go under the hammer tomorrow.