Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s research

A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.

Picasso painted the gouache-on-paper Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) in 1941. The raffle organisers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net €12m if they are all sold.

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For its inaugural show, the V&A’s east London outpost is celebrating 125 years of Black music-making in Britain. We asked top performers to pick their favourite exhibit

Goldie: Kemistry and Storm (The Diptych) by Eddie Otchere (1995)

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In unprecedented attack on the leader of the Catholic church, president says the US-born pope is ‘not doing a very good job’ and is ‘a very liberal person’

President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV on Sunday night, saying he didn’t think the US-born leader of the Catholic church is “doing a very good job” and that “he’s a very liberal person,” while also suggesting the pontiff should “stop catering to the Radical Left.”

Flying back to Washington from Florida, Trump used a lengthy social media post to sharply criticise Leo, then kept it up in comments on the tarmac to reporters.

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Na zestien jaar Viktor Orbán veegt Peter Magyar hem met grote meerderheid van de kaart. Correspondenten Mark Middel en Rik Rutten analyseren vanuit Boedapest en Brussel een…

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handwritten on slide, "Jim, waterski"

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Jim Harris: Artist. has added a photo to the pool:

www.saatchiart.com/jimharris

In januari won Greenpeace een grote klimaatrechtszaak tegen de overheid. Maar daalt de uitstoot werkelijk als de rechter zegt dat het moet? Dat valt tegen. Wie beter klimaatbeleid wil, kan niet om de politiek heen.

Vandaag hebben we te maken met veel bewolking, soms een waterig zonnetje en het blijft vrijwel overal droog. De middagtemperatuur komt uit op 14 graden en er staat weinig wind.

https://mvmagazine.com/news/2022/08/20/outermost-mayhem In 1979, new regulations rendered lots of cars on Martha's Vineyard obsolete. These are their stories.

The Crunch 3 Many photos of The Crunch Went to the Cruch exhibit today.