Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s son Charlie Gilmour has been charged with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg during a protest by students against the hike in university fees last December. Twenty-one-year-old Gilmour, a student at the Cambridge University, had been photographed hanging from a Union Jack flag on the Cenotaph during the protest in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square on December 9.
Angry students had attacked the car carrying Price Charles, the Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during the protest after their car had been caught up in demonstration.
He was arrested on December 12 despite issuing an apology after the protest and claiming that he did not realise the Cenotaph in the Whitehall commemorated Britain’s war dead.
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Titian work is auctioned for $16.88m
New York: A sumptuous painting of the Madonna and child by Renaissance master Titian sold for a record $16,882,500 on Thursday in New York.
The Sotheby’s auction easily broke a 20-year-old record of $13.6 million for a Titian.
The painting, A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria, depicts the Virgin Mary and the two saints posed around a chubby infant Jesus as he stretches out his left hand.
“A Sacra Conversazione is one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by Titian that remain in private hands, and is the most important to appear at auction in decades,” Sotheby’s said. —AFP