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Poised to compete across time zones, bidders in Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection were greeted at the start of this much-anticipated auction with the inimitable phrase ‘Hello Possums’ ahead of ...
Oscar Wilde’s grandson has condemned a new sculpture ... “I’m all for any sort of innovations in modern art. But this does seem to me to be unacceptable. It looks absolutely hideous ...
A new statue of Oscar Wild has been branded ... lying horizontally and split into segments. Wilde’s grandson, Merlin Holland, has criticised the piece of modern art and claimed that it ...
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s fantastical 1891 novel—a gothic meditation on the blurry lines that separate art from life, appearances from reality, body from soul—there's a ...
The 1890 magazine story by Oscar Wilde, which he novelized in 1891 ... the decadent influence of Lord Henry Wotton, the uglier the painting by Basil Hallward becomes. To get to that plot, though ...