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Freddie Mercury’s green garden door sells for more than £400,000 as auction attracts huge bids

Victorian-style silver snake bangle sells for whopping £698,500

The Independent UK

The hammer has spoken | S.H. Raza’s Gestation is the most expensive Indian artwork ever sold at auction

Even as S.H. Raza’s Gestation sells for a record-breaking ₹51.75 crore, the art world is looking at a quarter that could go down as the most ‘value generating’ ever

The Hindu

Roman bust seized from US museum in investigation into stolen pieces

Worcester Art Museum says bust, bought in 1966 but probably stolen and improperly imported from Turkey, to be returned

The Guardian - US

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With 2,000 missing objects, the British Museum faces a historic crisis of custodianship - but this case is far from unique

Since mid-August, the British Museum has been mired in a controversy over the theft of about 2,000 objects from its collections. The theft is suspected to be an inside job that took place over a period of twenty years. Alerted to the sale of alleged stolen items in 2021, the…

The Conversation

The greatest street in Angola: Kim Praise’s best photograph

‘I decided to get above street level and show the mix of colours: the oranges of the market set against the reds of the roofs. It is my country at its very best’

The Guardian - UK

‘Beautiful havoc’: the film about the angel of death that lost its director to Covid

Steve Booth, former guitarist of scorching hot glammers Pink Grease, died before End Credits was finished. Our writer relives the Orphic odyssey that has finally brought his vision to the screen

The Guardian - UK

New British Museum interim director vows to ‘restore reputation’ of institution

Sir Mark was previously the director of National Museums Scotland

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Former V&A boss Sir Mark Jones confirmed as British Museum interim director

Sir Mark was previously the director of National Museums Scotland.

The Independent UK

Artists tackle antisemitism with ambitious new billboard project

New digital billboard project by For Freedoms to launch in response to the rise of hate toward the Jewish community

The Guardian - US

Burning Man attendees reveal how they’re dealing with festival amid the mud and rain

Despite the festival grounds turning into a massive mud pit, ‘Burners’ did not let that stop them from creating art and partying

The Independent UK

OPINION - The London Question: Why is so much of London’s public art so bad?

St Pancras station is a magnificent place to catch a train. From George Gilbert Scott’s stunning gothic hotel front to William Henry Barlow’s elegantly soaring iron and glass train shed, it’s an uplifting location to start or end any journey. It’s also home to one of the worst works of…

Evening Standard

Spouses of G20 leaders to inaugurate 'Roots and Routes' exhibition at NGMA

Spouses of G20 leaders participating in the New Delhi Summit will inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to India’s civilisation prowess and artistic excellence, titled ‘Roots and Routes: Past Present and Continuous' on September 9 in the National Gallery of Modern Art, said official sources. Read further on Dynamite News:

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‘China is not just one entity’: major exhibition aims to showcase unseen diversity

Over 200 items from over seven Chinese museums will be on display at a new exhibition that shines a light on the Jiangnan region and its long-running importance

The Guardian - US

Another round of Toast: fashion firm chief on its plans to embrace repairs and secondhand sales

Suzie de Rohan Willner says her brand’s customers are concerned about ethical production and trust it to ‘do the right thing’

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Tower Bridge sculpture made from 25kg of sugar to go on display

The exhibition opens at The Oxo Tower in London this Friday

France 24

Notorious French gangster stands trial for helicopter jailbreak

Infamous French criminal Rédoine Faïd, who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France, went on trial in Paris on Tuesday. Faïd, dubbed the “getaway king”, faces life in prison on charges of escaping jail in an organised gang and hijacking an aircraft.

The Independent UK

Tower Bridge sculpture made entirely from 25kg of sugar

Michelle Wibowo, an award-winning artist known for her intricate sugar and cake sculptures, spent more than 150 hours on the creation.

The Independent UK

Burning Man attendees reveal how they’re dealing with festival amid the mud and rain

Despite the festival grounds turning into a massive mud pit, ‘Burners’ did not let that stop them from creating art and partying

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The Independent UK

Wallace Chan exhibition featuring one of world’s largest black diamonds opens

The Wheel Of Time exhibition premiered at Christie’s King Street headquarters in London.

The Hindu

Rare handscrolls of artist Benode Behari Mukherjee on show in Kochi

Benode Behari Mukherjee's Handscrolls is an exhibition that showcases his connection to his surroundings in West Bengal. His paintings in sepia, burnt red, black and cream reflect his life at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. The show includes rare handscrolls, an early mural, self-portraits and a documentary. It is a window…

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not possible!’ The crazy tightropes and dangling pianos of art daredevil Catherine Yass

She slid down a skyscraper and once tried to throw a piano off a tower block roof. The former Turner nominee tells us about Flood Barrier, a new work inspired by a guillotine-like water defence

The Hindu

Not conventional idol-makers, but in love with the art

While Bengaluru boasts of a rich tradition of artisans carrying forward their ancestral artistic heritage, it also has individuals from diverse backgrounds who passionately pursue these crafts. Pottery Town in Bengaluru also has artisans like Sandeep S. and Arun Kumar, who are not from the Kumbara community of traditional potters…

The Independent UK

Boy thrown from Tate Modern balcony walking with cane and relying on wheelchair less

The French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack at the tourist attraction in 2019

The Independent UK

Boy thrown from Tate Modern balcony mostly out of his wheelchair, say family

The French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack at the tourist attraction in 2019.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s what Princess Diana said off-camera, not on, in the Bashir interview that inspired my play’

Jonathan Maitland worked with Martin Bashir at the BBC and ITV for over six years. With the infamous Panorama programme essentially censored, he wanted to mark her ground-breaking comments about bulimia, postnatal depression and self-harm

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