Gangster Reggie Kray's paintings are forgeries: Auctioneers remove paintings from sale as experts say they are too good for dead crime boss

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Supersonic sculpture: Designer creates five tonne stainless steel artwork using Concorde's nose cone

Supersonic sculpture

The pictures that make you look twice: Intriguing optical illusions that were created with no camera trickery

More than meets the eye

Show of the week: Plasticine with a twist

VIVID: Gallagher embellishes 1950s adverts with Plasticine hair sculptures

Much of Ellen Gallagher's art is simply gorgeous to look at, with a sumptuous, complex surface, absorbing in detail and vividly impressive.

Now that's something to ponder: Auguste Rodin's The Thinker sells for a record $15.3 million at auction

For sale: 'Le Penseur' by Auguste Rodin is on display during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art sales in New York

The Thinker sold yesterday for $15.3 million, a new record for the figure beating a price of $12 million for a casting sold in 2010.

London road renamed after Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch artist lived and fell in love in the capital

Van Gogh Walk

Isabel Street in Stockwell has been renamed Van Gogh Walk after the Post-Impressionist legend and has helped to inspire the transformation of what they said was once a no-go area.

Don't look, Nelson! Giant French blue cockerel set to land on fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square unless campaigners can stop it

This 15ft-tall fibreglass bird, designed by German artist Katharina Fritsch, is due to be placed on the fourth plinth on July 20

The 15ft-tall fibreglass bird, designed by German artist Katharina Fritsch, is due to be placed on the fourth plinth on July 20.

The most expensive paintbrush ever? Florida-based princess uses wind and heat from a private jet's engine to make art

Jet Art

Princess Tarinan von Anhalt - whose husband was the late Prince of Austria - creates art with the help of a very powerful and expensive paintbrush - a jet engine.

Incredible slow-motion shots capture cheetah accelerating to 70mph

A cheetah chases a false chicken on a wire in Livingstone, Zambia

Adalberto Mangini, 51, held his nerve to get these pictures as the cheetah hurtled up an enclosed run as it chased a fake chicken at the Mukuni Big 5 Safari in Livingstone, Zambia. It was part of the big cat's rehabilitation as staff prepared it for life back in the wild.

Spectacular pictures of the mountain spewing scarlet smoke over a desolate grey Sea of Sand

Mount Bromo,

Mount Bromo, in East Java, in Indonesia, is best seen at dawn and dusk when the dim light transforms the landscape.

Photographer captures 360 degree pictures taken aboard some of the world's scariest rides

Rollercoaster

Photographer Lewis Whyld has developed a camera system which can take 360 degree pictures and attached it to some of the UK's scariest rides. The photographs, taken at the most exciting points of each, capture the delight - and terror - of those aboard.

You’ve got to hand it to him: Artist who makes his drawings leap off the page

This eye-popping artwork looks like its leaping off the page in 3D - but its actually a trick of perspective

Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki's clever pencil work means that ordinary sketchbooks are transformed into vivid, seemingly three-dimensional artworks by painstaking use of light and shadow.

David Bowie drawings boost Peter Howson auction as collection sells for more than £200,000

The 10 sketches of David Bowie by Scottish artist Peter Howson raised £35,000 at auction

A total of 390 paintings, drawings and sketches, including 10 of the pop icon, were sold at auction by Terry Howson, the former wife of the Scottish artist.

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