A herculean effort

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’

A brass-inlaid rosewood table, three of four Seasons bursting with colour and a rare pair of powder-blue vases should draw every eye at the forthcoming Decorative Art Fair in London

PYRAMIDS, obelisks, coffins and sphinxes are embedded in ...

Over six decades, the American financier and businessman T Kimball Brooker assembled one of the finest rare book libraries ever to come to auction. Dubbed ‘Bibliotheca Brookeriana’, it comprised over

A new exhibition explores the enduring artistry of ancient Egypt

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists