CULTURE

The painting, from 1932, will be sold by Sotheby's on 5 February and it is estimated to reach between £25 million and £35 million.

The ‘taboo and distasteful’ sex book was unofficially banned for over 200 years.

Lee Hadwin, who draws in a trance, sells entire collection with half of proceeds going to to Missing Persons charity.

Kate Middleton looks like she has had one too many sleepless nights in the first official portrait of her.

A priceless portrait by the Venetian artist Titian has been rediscovered in the bowels of London's National Gallery.

Knives out for harsh and funny critiques of literary giants' failed masterpieces for 2012.

Edgar Feuchtwanger describes life over the road from future Nazi dictator in run-up to Third Reich.

Fans will raise their glasses to the Lord of the Rings author at 9pm tonight.

JK Rowling unlocks extended chapters for fans to read online at Pottermore.

London's In & Out club hosts 20th annual awards marking flaccid prose, unsexy images and clumsy verbal technique.

Lauren Laverne will be hosting the Channel 4 programme live from Tate Britain, London.

BBC One has commissioned an adaptation of the Harry Potter author's dark thriller.

Judy Chicago meets the IBTimes UK ahead of three important UK shows and talks about women in the Middle East, the death of Savita Halappanavar and the state of feminist art.

The Little Britain star has announced they are expecting their first child.

Diamonds singer immortalised in lifelike figures showing her during her redhead phase.

Our film critic Matt Chapman reviews Ben Affleck's latest film about a team of fugitive US diplomats who fabricate a sci-fi film to escape from Iran.

Model treats fans to behind-the-stage snaps of her preparing for stint in burlesque show Forever Crazy.

Originally titled by Munch as Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature), The Scream features a turbulent man against the backdrop of a Norwegian landscape with orange sky.

Peter Hitchens book, The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs, is not what you might expect.

From the British royal lineage, a portrait drawing of Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and a painted portrait of Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, will go on show at The Queen’s Gallery.

Star of the controversial Emmanuelle series of soft porn films, Sylvia Kristel, has died.

History was made at the Man Booker prize last night as Hilary Mantel became the first woman and the first British novelist, to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize twice and receive £50,000 as part of the prize. For her novel, Bring up the Bodies.

Mantel becomes first woman and first British novelist to win prestigious prize twice.

Five-day book fair, with New Zealand as guest of honour, has 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries.

A new exhibition in Scotland, Lucknow to Lahore: Fred Bremner’s Vision of India, showcases photographs taken in British Raj India between 1882 and 1922.

The paintings were done with the artist’s blood and depict a situation of hope in the times of fragility.

Despite dividing critics, The Causal Vacancy sells 124,603 copies in first three days.

Harry Potter author's new book, The Casual Vacancy, describes a Sikh female student as hairy.

Props and dresses from famous James Bond films such as Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only and The World Is Not Enough are up for online bidding.