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Maev Kennedy works from London. Maev Kennedy is a freelance arts and archaeology journalist Maev Kennedy has over 2227 followers on Twitter.

The frame containing ‘Arab in Black’ is itself rare and valuable

Expert finds SA painting valued at £1m in London kitchen

An art expert discovered the Irma Stern painting, once sold to help fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence, being used as a noticeboard in a London flat.

Kit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.

Game of Thrones author gives fans the finger

Fans of George RR Martin’s books want to know if he’ll live long enough to give them an end to the series, a question he finds pretty offensive.

Manil Suri.

Exploding supernovas of passion: the bad sex awards

Mathematics professor scoops bad sex award with "quirky" and "wildly experimental" scenes of lust.

‘People who get their kicks dressing up in uniforms will need to apply somewhere else.’

Channel your road rage: be a traffic spy

It’s quite easy to become a traffic impimpi. Charles Leonard tells you how you can become one.

Freud’s sofa not so good

The Freud Museum in London has launched an appeal on the 157th anniversary of his birth for funds to reupholster the famous couch.

Silk cape out of spider’s web

Silk cape out of spider’s web

It has taken eight years and more than one million Madagascar golden orb spiders to create a work of art.

‘Tough’ Giffords back at scene of shooting

The survivor of a shooting, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returns to the scene of the crime a year after 19 people were gunned down in Arizona.

Making a wordy living

Making a wordy living

Kelly, a local government finance adviser becomes Britain’s national Scrabble champion.

Host of Christmas past

In true Dickensian style, a magnificent gift has arrived at the doorstep of Charles Dickens’s only surviving London home.

Bone to pick with sensitive museums

Museums are increasingly getting cold feet about exhibiting human bodies and body parts, despite surveys showing great public interest.

An exhibition of fakes and mistakes

An exhibition of fakes and mistakes

The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square is about to open its worst exhibition ever.

Museum treads carefully with Titanic exhibition

The Science museum in London has consulted its patrons before mounting an exhibition of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic, reports Maev Kennedy in London.

Road rage

The Sylheti community’s anger at the filming of Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane echoes earlier clashes between art and religion, writes Maev Kennedy.

Joyce for the ears

You wait a century for a recording of every word of Ulysses and then 54 CDs of James Joyce’s masterpiece come along at once, reports Maev Kennedy from London.