Scream breaks the record set by Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust which sold for £66.4m in 2010.
Jailbirds' bizarre forehead body art ensures that whatever crime they committed, they would not go undetected for long.
Cezanne masterpiece, A Card Player, rediscovered after almost 60 years, hogs limelight at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale.
Pablo Picasso's 1932 lilac-hued oil painting of his young mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, went for a staggering £65.6 million in New York.
Lucian Freud leaves daughter Rose Pearce and lawyer Diana Rawstron in charge of most of estate.
The exhibition presents images of the queen on official occasions and at family gatherings.
Image removed from Scream Gallery in Mayfair after a Metropolitan police officer complained that the artwork condoned bestiality.
New exhibition, titled "Picasso & Modern British Art", explores Picasso's extensive legacy and influence on British art.
Right from the time when a portrait of Britain’s late Elizabeth I was painted in 1588, to the modern time’s most recent portrait of Catherine Middleton.
Giuseppina Capriotti, an Egyptologist at Italy's National Research Council, finds the statues of the babies Alexander Helios (Sun) and Cleopatra Selene (Moon).
It may sound ambiguous but the food platters we are referring to are actually made of polymer clay and fit within one’s fingers tips.
Among the outstanding items in the sale is a rare Venetian enamel and parcel gilt decorated copper dish from around 1500, estimated at £25,000-30,000.
Bonhams' Print Sale section is all set for the auction of a major work by one of the most important British print makers of the 20th Century at New Bond Street London.
Young British Artist's exhibition highlights 70 major pieces of his career.
Scottish artist's astonishing lifelike pictures on show in London.
Over 100 of Hollywood's most iconic costumes created for unforgettable cinema characters over a century of film-making will be on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Duchess of Cambridge joins Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall at Prince's Foundation for Children event.
Google marks 101st anniversary of birth of the man who invented Japanese paper-folding art.
Scientists believe they have found evidence to the hiding place of Leonardo Da Vinci's lost painting Battle of Anghiari in Italy
Damien Hirst reveals extensive plans for his first public gallery, to open in south London.
The oil paintings stolen from the house of a wealthy businessman in Rome during 1971 were discovered at the same place in two houses owned by a 50-year-old woman.
Pete Doherty's Blood Paintings On Show in London
You know a white elephant is something that you can't dispose of. But have you ever heard about a white elephant that melts and disposes itself?
Tired of the conventional emoticons? Try these interesting Japanese emoticons! Japanese emoticons, known as anime emoticons, are different from the others found on the Internet. One can find smileys for emotions, expressions, animals, greetings and more.
Greek Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos resigned on Friday after robbers stole more than 60 invaluable antique objects from a museum in Olympia.
A rare portrait of a naked model sprawled across a bed, painted by famous English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon sold for £21.3 million.
For the first time, the Victoria & Albert Museum has dedicated a solo exhibition exploring the work of Heatherwick Studio, one of the most inventive and experimental design studios practising in Britain today.
Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air art collection fetched £14million at Christie's auction on Wednesday.
The shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus competition was announced on Feb. 7.
Copy found in Madrid museum thought to have been painted by student of Da Vinci.