Muse: Arts, Culture & Spend

A bidding battle for a Marino Marini sculpture last night was the highlight of back-to-back auctions of contemporary and 20th-century Italian art that raised more than double the total achieved in 2009.

The ostensible mystery at the heart of the play “Onassis” concerns a suggestion that shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis paid for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy . The real mystery, though, is how such a clunky, amateurish piece sailed into London’s West End.

Jamie Oliver won the food personality prize last night in the Observer Food Monthly awards, a repeat of last year’s triumph for the TV chef who campaigns for better nutrition, particularly in school meals.