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Searching for Love this Valentine's?
Recipes for cakes, biscuits, pancakes and cheesecakes have all seen greater interest the week prior to this Valentines Day than the first savoury dish on the list.

2018 - An Art Year in Review
At $80m, the Hockney set a new mark beating that held by Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange), which sold for $58.4m in 2013.

Decorating the Mahogany this Christmas?
The most famous mention of the martini is, of course, its description as that most favoured by Commander James Bond...

Was Christmas Humbug for Shakespeare?
One of Shakespeare’s plays with themes of mistaken identity, social climbing and transvestism no less, is Twelfth Night, a play traditionally performed at the seasonal time of year.

Robert Delaunay: 'Homagist'
Delaunay produced a work in 1914 as an homage to a pioneer of engineering, the aviator Louis Bleriot.

The fabulous style of Art Deco …
Art Deco came about through a range of artists, furniture makers and architects converging.