A nude portrait by Lucian Freud of art handler Ria Kirby is coming to auction at Christie's London, priced at up to $20 million.

We measured the eye movements of visitors to a gallery as they looked at a set of five portraits of black sitters.

Bernard Jacobson also reflects on the trajectory of art history—something he discussed at length with the late Bowie.

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