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Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: JR's homage to Miami, Naama Tsabar pulls some strings and Johnny Depp is all ears

Plus: Michael Seri's mellow-yellow muse, why Fatboy Slim's never felt so good and Ezra Collective wow White Cube crowd

How a fake Van Gogh encouraged Barbra Streisand to buy the real thing

The star's autobiography reveals her admiration for a “self-portrait” owned by a Hollywood producer

Man pleads guilty to stealing original Wizard of Oz ruby slippers from Judy Garland museum

The film-famous footwear disappeared from a museum in the actress's Minnesota childhood home in 2005

Diaryblog

Uma Thurman kills it as dodgy dealer in Hollywood's latest art-themed film

'Preposterous' plot involves a New York art dealer who teams up with a hitman to launch a money laundering scheme

Diaryblog

Actor and internet 'daddy' Pedro Pascal visits UK fan exhibition in Margate

The man of the hour arrived at the gallery with Talk Art hosts Russell Tovey and Robert Diament in tow

Hollywood’s newest art space takes up residence in artist's future burial plot

Nao Bustamante unveils Los Angeles's most ghoulish gallery space in the legendary Hollywood Forever cemetery

Van Gogh goes to Hollywood: the celebrities who have owned Vincent's work

Californian collectors had the taste and cash to buy some of his finest paintings, with stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Robinson and Barbra Streisand

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Brad Pitt makes his debut as a sculptor in Finland exhibition

The Fight Club actor shows his art in public for the first time in a group show with musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago

‘You’re trying to remove the software from yourself’: Deak Ferrand on designing the look of 'Dune’

Deak’s concept art for the blockbuster film takes viewers to vast supernatural landscapes

Interviewarchive

Interview: Why Mike Leigh turned to art

The British director on his acclaimed big-screen portrait of Turner—and the artist’s “box of tricks”

Interview with James Franco: “I wanted to create a feeling of ‘too much’”

The actor on stepping outside of Hollywood fame and why collaboration feels so natural

Art marketarchive

Rumoured expansion west for Cheim & Read

While opening remains unconfirmed, it would be among a spate of other galleries branching out

Featuresarchive

Tim Burton as great as Warhol, says MoMA in the lead up to its exhibition on the director

The curator of an exhibition which includes over 700 of the film-maker’s drawings, paintings, graphic works and photographs, believes Burton will come to be seen as one of the most influential artists of our time

The art scene takes off in LA with a star studded cast including Gagosian and PaceWildenstein

Tinseltown tunes into art as money and movies draw New York dealers, creating new collectors out of Hollywood royalty - though no one will kiss and tell

Auctionsarchive

Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000

The film star was a serious pioneer collector

Museumsarchive

Spielberg/Time Warner museum for Norman Rockwell

Increased attendance to the artist's Stockbridge museum has spawned a massive expansion project funded by the Rockwell of cinema

Time for a whip-round: Indiana Jones’s bull whip on sale to raise funds for Institute of Archaeology's new centre

The prop is is one of the star lots in Christie’s South Kensington's Film and Entertainment sale