Brian May, the Queen guitarist and expert astronomer, has ventured into another dimension, bringing the idyllic world of 1850s rural England back to life in vivid colour 3D.

France’s International Contemporary Art Fair opened on Wednesday with more than 200 exhibitors showing works from 4,200 artists all hoping to buck the downward economic trend.

Check out famed auction house Christie’s fall sale preview in this online video news from WNBC in New York on Webcastr.

Prized Inuit artwork from the Kinngait print studio in Cape Dorset, Nunavut were celebrated in an Iqaluit museum, to mark the Cape Dorset collection’s 50th anniversary.

Oils, inks and acrylics of all sizes but almost all in black go on show as France celebrates its best-known living artist, Pierre Soulages, an abstract painter obsessed with the power of black. Some 100 works spanning his career are on display now. Take a look.