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Scots city named one of the most cultured in Europe - beating Paris, Florence and London

Edinburgh finished second only behind Venice in Italy in the top 10.

Daily Record

Cash as canvas, Turner returns and footy gets fashionable – the week in art

An exhibition on money as protest art, the creativity of terrace culture in Merseyside and Frick Collection treasures visit the National – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Is smearing food on the ‘Mona Lisa’ a productive form of climate change protest?

In recent months climate activists have been in a food fight with art museums across Europe. Their protests include throwing tomato soup at a van Gogh painting in London’s National Gallery and smearing cake on the protective glass over the “Mona Lisa.” Last week they threw mashed potatoes on the…

Los Angeles Times

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Channel stress into creativity after a long day at work

Channeling your artistic side can be good for your mental health, but working in a high-stress environment can affect your creativity.

Tribune News Service

Guru's Weekly Buzz for Nov 4 to 10

Our pick of the most exciting products, activities, art exhibitions, shows, food and hotel deals.

Bangkok Post

The Benin Bronzes and the road to restitution

Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history

Financial Times

‘I don’t have those stone testicles’: curator reveals secrets and myths of Paris’s famous cemetery

Benoît Gallot balances the needs of the city with those beating a path to legends such as Oscar Wilde at Père-Lachaise

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Con artist who posed as French teen jailed

Con artist Samantha Azzopardi has been jailed over her 100th charge after leading police on a wild goose chase pretending to be an abused French teenager.

AAP

See Banksy's work up close at Moca Bangkok

For the first time in Southeast Asia and Thailand, work by world-renowned street artist Banksy is being displayed in an exhibition titled "The Art Of Banksy: Without Limits" which takes place at Moca Bangkok on Kamphaeng Phet 6 Road from now until Dec 31.

Bangkok Post

George Booth, cartoonist of domestic farce, dies at 96

George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats and the human beings somehow in charge of their well being, has died

The Independent UK

DuSable Black history museum to host screening honoring Chicago artist Norman Parish

The documentary, titled “Walls of Respect: Norman Parish and the Parish Art Gallery,” honors the life, work and legacy of the artist and art dealer.

Chicago Sun-Times

Eco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we value

In the last few weeks climate change activists have perpetrated various acts of reversible vandalism against famous works of art in public galleries.

The Conversation

Renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes to feature in world premiere honouring women in steel industry

Claire Edwardes brings her collection of unlikely instruments to a new orchestral work that pays homage to women who fought to work in the steel industry.

ABC News

Exhibition spotlights evolution of Al Jazeera

‘Experience Al Jazeera’ spotlights 25 years of network’s growth from a single TV channel to a global media phenomenon.

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The Conversation

Why Tutankhamun’s curse continues to fascinate, 100 years after his discovery

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 was a monumental event for archaeology. It was the first largely intact ancient Egyptian royal tomb to be found and hence provided major insights into the burial practices of royalty. It also gave a glimpse of what other undiscovered, lost or robbed tombs…

Evening Standard

My Instagram tattoo studio hell can serve as a warning to us all

Cast your mind back to last Wednesday evening, 9pm to be exact. What were you doing? Perhaps you were curled up on the sofa reading a book, maybe finishing the last of your dinner. Cherishing the precious moments of leisure we have on the ever-accelerating hamster wheel of life.

Dublin Live

World's largest touring collection of Banksy artworks coming to Dublin

Banksy fans can experience the infamous artist’s most well-known works

The Guardian - UK

‘I try to depict the sense of liberation’: what carnival means to British-Caribbean artists

Paul Dash, Errol Lloyd and John Lyons discuss their new exhibition exploring the celebration: its electric atmosphere, cultural significance and complex traditions

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Artist re-creates Shuri Castle painting

NAHA -- A young artist has reproduced a classic Chinese painting lost in the massive fire that destroyed Shuri Castle in Naha three years ago.

The Texas Tribune

Photos: In the wake of tragedy, Uvalde residents look to murals for healing

Murals of the victims give the community a positive outlet to process their grief and celebrate their loved ones’ lives.

Chicago Sun-Times

Joan Didion estate sale features author’s notebooks, sunglasses, typewriter

The auction, titled ‘An American Icon: Property from the Collection of Joan Didion’ will take place at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, and online Nov. 16.

The Guardian - AU

‘He found beauty and colour everywhere’: celebrating the life of Nicholas Harding

We will miss the award-winning painter who died this week aged 66

Bangkok Post

Broadening horizons

The Hotel Art Fair is likely to attract visitors, collectors and gallerists with its wide range of displays from 28 art galleries, music performances, fashion, furniture and discussion groups. Held at The Standard Mahanakhon from today until Sunday, the seventh edition of the fair, organised by Farmgroup, will be launched…

ABC News

Armageddon Time casts Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong as director James Gray’s real-life Jewish immigrant family

In James Gray’s autobiographical Armageddon Time, the friendship between a white Jewish boy and his Black classmate grates against the backdrop of race and class tensions in 80s New York.

Reuters

Climate activists who targeted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' sentenced to prison

Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the famous Johannes Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" have been sentenced to two months in prison by the Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.

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