The Turner prize-winning artist on a glorious Italian painting, his favourite horror novel, and why he finally started to like podcastsBorn in Birkenhead in 1964, the artist Mark Leckey came to prominence with 1999’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, which...
A tiny Roman rarity cast near Vesuvius and once owned by the writer and politician Horace Walpole has been discovered by an eagle-eyed curatorA bronze bust of the “mad and bad” Roman emperor Caligula has been found 200 years after it disappeared – a...
Actor and comedian says it would be ‘classy’ move if British Museum returned the ancient sculptures to GreeceStephen Fry has likened the removal of the Parthenon marbles from Greece to Nazi Germany stealing the Arc de Triomphe during the occupation o...