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The best art galleries in Lisbon showcase the work of established and up-and-coming Portuguese and international artists.

Ground-breaking male form sale at Bonhams By the Water’s Edge by Henry Scott Tuke. Estimate: £6,000-9,000. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON .-Bonhams is to hold the first-ever sale by an international auction house dedicated exclusively to a celebration of the male form in art. It will span centuries and genres, from Antiquities and Old Master Painting to Sculpture and Decorative Arts, from Contemporary Art to Photography. The sale will take place at Bonhams New Bond Street saleroom in London on Wednesday 16 June. The sale is being curated by Bonhams Greek Art Specialist Anastasia Orfanidou and Bonha...

  On February 18th this year, cheers erupted around the world while viewers watched Nasa’s Perseverance robot land on Mars. It was the 10th-ever landing on the red planet, which began with the Soviet Union in 1971. Though located 300 million miles and a seven-month journey from earth, the planet has an interesting Irish link. One of the planets’ moons – Deimos – has an abyss called Swift Crater, in memory of the ramblings of Lemuel Gulliver, the pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift in his 1726 masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels. The noted Irish satirist and poet, who became...