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A Vincent van Gogh landscape and other paintings from the collection of Elizabeth Taylor are up for auction in London next month. Christie’s auction house says 38 works belonging to the late actress will be included in Impressionist and modern sales.

The exhibition features Memorial to a Marriage, a new bronze sculpture depicting the nearly life-size, sleeping figures of Patricia Cronin and her life mate, artist Deborah Kass, joined in a tender embrace.

Inspired by the works of authors like Jules Verne and H.G Wells, and grown out of the world of science fiction, steampunk has become a cultural phenomenon like that of the punk rock movement of the 1980’s or the goth movement of the 1990’s. 

An assistant museum curator who questioned the authenticity of a Leonardo da Vinci has been murdered - but before he died he left a code in his appointment calendar and a cryptic trail of clues.