Maev Kennedy

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.