Paul Noble has been made the bookies favourite to win the Turner Prize tonight with his huge, intricate pencil drawings of an imaginary city whose res...
Tonight, the nation's attention will be temporarily fixed on modern art as the winner of our most famous art prize, the Turner, is announced. So of...
With only a month to go until entries close on the Sony World Photography Awards, we've asked some of the judges of the prize to share their tips on w...
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All the action from tonight's big announcement. Plus some silly stuff. ...
Elizabeth Price has won the Turner Prize 2012. Price, the former 1980s pop musician won for her “seductive and immersive” video trilogy and bec...
Two men will appear in court today to be sentenced for stealing a Henry Moore sculpture worth up to £500,000. Liam Hughes, 22, and 19-year-old Jas...
Sex And The City's Kim Cattrall will take to the Old Vic stage next year playing a fading Hollywood star in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bir...
A man has been jailed after a bid to steal a rhino head worth up to £500,000 was foiled by museum staff and visitors. Patrick Kiely, 29, of Eleano...
After 430 years observing the Gregorian calendar, we've become a species of habits. At this time of year chief among them is looking back on the pr...
Author Nancy Huston has landed one of the literary world's least coveted prizes after taking the Bad Sex award. She triumphed over figures such as ...
Ann Summers tycoon Jacqueline Gold says the success of saucy literary hit 50 Shades of Grey has led to sales at her chain going through the roof. T...
The former home of Charles Dickens will reopen to the public today after undergoing a £3.1 million revamp to give the impression that the great autho...
Snowman creator Raymond Briggs has dismissed the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in films as "too perfect". The TV version of The Snowman h...
What have been your biggest art stories of the past 12 months? Picking just ten was difficult. In a year that saw London show off the best of Briti...
One is considered the forefather of modern sculpture, the other is England's best known exponent of the art. Now, the work of two of the best known...
Even by Old Testament standards, the story of Noah and the Ark is pretty, well, Biblical in proportion. All of the world's animals entering a giant...
With an estimated 530,000 different books released per year in the UK and America alone, which of them make it past the panels of book awards - from t...
Digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world - including a 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments - have b...
Digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world - including a 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments - have b...
Cecilia Gímenez is back. An original painting by the 80-year-old Spaniard, whose attempt to restore a 19th-century Ecce Homo prompted hilarity ar...
The rise of photo manipulation technology has been swift and, some would say, pernicious. In advertising, impossibly perfect bodies, food and scen...
When we've featured photorealistic drawings in the past on HuffPost Culture, it's proven surprisingly divisive. To some people, the idea of reprodu...
Almost a dozen passionate letters sent by Mick Jagger to his secret lover in the summer of 1969 have sold for £187,250. The price was more than do...
On the plane home I realise: Reykjavík is easier to access from London than the North of our own country, in terms of time and money. But from there, with a little money and imagination, you can enter an other world, a landscape from the pages of fairytales.
