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A celebrated painting by British artist David Hockney has been sold at Christie’s in New York for just over $90m (£70m) – an auction record for a work by a living artist. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) had been forecast to fetch $80m (£62m). It sold following a 10-minute battle between two bidders via telephone, after the ...

You might not have heard of Liane Moriarty, but you probably will know about Big Little Lies – Moriarty’s most famous book, which was turned into a hit TV series starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman last year. Now promoting her eighth work Nine Perfect Strangers, the Australian author says she wouldn’t even have taken up writing if it hadn’t ...

Stormzy will be Glastonbury’s first grime headliner, with a Pyramid Stage slot confirmed for 2019. The news first broke via a poster in an Oxfam shop in Streatham – close to the star’s childhood home – and one in Glastonbury. Stormzy confirmed the news via a post on Instagram. He headlined this summer’s Wireless Festival and has played Glastonbury festival ...

Red carpets at Hollywood screenings of new films starring Nicole Kidman and Viola Davis have been cancelled as wildfires rage in California. Stars were expected to step out before screenings of movies including Davis’s Widows and Kidman’s Destroyer at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest. But the glitzy red carpet walks were called off out of respect to those affected ...

Action hero Jack Reacher is to get a reboot for the small screen with a new actor in the lead role after creator Lee Child admitted Tom Cruise, who played him in two films, is too short. In Child’s books, Reacher is described as 6ft 5in tall with hands the size of dinner plates. Cruise is 5ft 7in. “Cruise, for ...

Comic book legend Stan Lee was working on a new superhero with his daughter before his death, she has revealed. Speaking to TMZ, JC Lee described the character – Dirt Man – as “the last little angel we’ve got tucked away”. She told the entertainment site: “I said, ‘Daddy, please – no clatter, no steel, no any of that. Let’s ...

Tributes are being paid to American writer and former president of Marvel Comics Stan Lee, who has died at the age of 95. Lee created The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961 and went on to create titles including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk. Actor Chris Evans, best known for playing Marvel’s Captain America, wrote “there will never be ...

Gerard Butler and Miley Cyrus are among the celebrities whose homes have been destroyed by the deadly wildfires in California. Other stars including Kim Kardashian-West and Lady Gaga evacuated their homes over the weekend while sharing updates with fans on social media. The fires started on Thursday and have killed at least 31 people, with more than 200 people missing. ...

Billie Marten doesn’t seem to wear her cloak of youth lightly. “I’m 19 years old – it’s the worst thing about me,” she says when asked her age. Expanding on this, she says: “I guess it’s just the reaction when you say you haven’t even hit your 20s yet. “Most people’s perceptions of you immediately change because they know you’ve ...

The Satanic Temple is suing the makers of TV series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for $50 million (£38m) over a statue. Netflix and Warner Bros allegedly copied the group’s statue of the goat deity Baphomet in the programme. Both production companies have declined to comment on the law suit. Satanic Temple does not worship Satan, but instead seeks “to ...