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Egypt unveils 4,500-year-old tunnel hidden inside Great Pyramid

Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 years ago.

France 24

Looted Kandinsky work restored to Jewish heirs fetches $45M

A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for 37.2 million pounds ($44.9 million)

The Independent UK

BBC Antiques Road Trip presenter amazed as bargain £20 find worth hundreds

Mark was convinced an item he spent £20 on could be worth a small fortune

Liverpool Echo

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Edvard Munch painting hidden from Nazis in a barn sells at auction for nearly £17million

More than £170 million was spent as London’s auction season got into full swing with a series of major works going under the hammer at Sotheby’s, including two paintings restituted to their original owners after they were lost during the Nazis’ rise to power.

Evening Standard

Class action: the show pricking the bubble of art snobbery

Poor Things is an exhibition that challenges the stubborn perception of art as a purely middle-class pursuit

The Guardian - UK

Denmark: Statue of Little Mermaid vandalized again

The famed statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid, one of Copenhagen’s biggest tourist draws, has been vandalized, with the colors of the Russian flag painted on the rock on which she sits

The Independent UK

Egyptian Artists Prepare for Ramadan with Lanterns, Small Motifs

Egyptian artists are preparing for Ramadan by making lanterns and small, funny motifs depicting famous figures that locals are used to like “Al-Mesaharati”, “Bougi”, “Tamtam”, and “Bakkar”. Handmade artisanal works still have a great significance in Egypt, and the modern machine-made products didn’t manage to replace them, which encourage local…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Why Newcastle council's works budget has fallen $14m from the forecast this year

The council adopted a revised budget on Tuesday night after a review of the spending program.

Newcastle Herald

Dublin cafe on the lookout for artist to transform its wall

Dublin Live

‘Joyful’ portrait of Picasso’s daughter Maya sells at auction for over £18m

The piece was one of five works that was sold for more than £15 million at the sale by auction house Sotheby’s on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Kandinsky masterpiece sells for record $45 million

LONDON - Wassily Kandinsky's masterpiece "Murnau Mit Kirche II", recently recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $45 million on Wednesday, a record for the artist according to auctioneers Sotheby's.

Bangkok Post

Mystery bidder hands over £335k to save eccentric artist's life work

Ron Gittins' spectacular artistic creations will be preserved thanks to a huge last-minute bid

Liverpool Echo

Baker creates cheeky cupcakes to mark International Women's Day - and each is unique

With International Women's Day taking place on March 8, Mrs Browns Bakery has teamed up with a local artist to celebrate women - by selling vulva cupcakes of all shapes and sizes

Daily Mirror

Paul McCartney, Elton John and Tom Hanks lead A-listers celebrating artist David Hockney

Paul McCartney, Elton John and Tom Hanks visited David Hockney's new exhibition Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) in London

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

Museums should take their art on the road

Letters: The whole country should have access to prestigious collections based in London, says David Kennedy, while Pete James and Peter and Christine Nias remember mobile museums in South Yorkshire and Namibia respectively

The Guardian - UK

Anthony Green obituary

Artist who mined the domestic details of his family life in unsettling works that he described as ‘rather like a strip cartoon’

Newsroom.co.nz

Hamish Coney: Nau mai ki te Kapua/Welcome to the Cloud*

Aotearoa Art Fair 2023 opens today in a city on a post Te Matatini high, but still reeling from the cyclone blues. Hamish Coney recommends a restorative trip to the Cloud on Tāmaki’s waterfront to catch the mahi toi of more than 180 artists from Aotearoa, Australia and beyond.

Nottingham Post

Nottingham's Lister Gate to be transformed into a health hub

It is hoped that the health street will also support new initiatives, such as Integrated Care Systems and social prescribing, which in some cases tells people to attend groups and activities, rather than prescribing medicine.

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Evening Standard

Nalini Malani at the National Gallery review: bringing a new perspective to the collection’s masterpieces

It’s as if we enter the artist’s brain as she takes on 22 paintings from the National and three from the Holburne

Chronicle Live

Crucifix stolen from Gosforth church to be rededicated after safe return and restoration

It comes almost two years after the sculpture was stolen from the Garden of Remembrance at All Saints Church in Gosforth during an overnight raid in May 2021

The National (Scotland)

Scottish gallery to reopen with show charting eight decades of art

A GALLERY which closed for the winter and spring amid funding challenges will reopen next month with a “fascinating” exhibition exploring 80…

The Independent UK

Gallery to reopen with show charting eight decades of art

Modern Two in Edinburgh has been shut since October last year.

Evening Standard

I’m proud to build on Rojo’s legacy, says English National Ballet’s new boss

Aaron S. Watkin launched ENB’s 2023/24 season on Wednesday

Los Angeles Times

What did Monet, Goya and Matisse have in common? Their late work was among their best

"Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph" by Richard Lacayo; Simon & Schuster (384 pages, $35)

The Guardian - UK

As good as gold … why toothpicks and hair locks are the new treasure

Everyday objects are the real key to our past. Now a change to the law could fill our museums with them, says Kate Mavor, chief executive of English Heritage

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