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London museum to return 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria

Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897

The Guardian - UK

The perils of living in a man’s world

Letter: The undervaluing of art made by women reflects a wider problem with social perceptions, writes Marianne Gemmeke

The Guardian - UK

‘They moved to silence and erase’: artists who sued Tate speak out

Exclusive: Tate agreed to pay a six-figure settlement after claim of discrimination, victimisation and harassment

The Guardian - UK

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‘There’s a raw energy’: Hydra, artists’ haven, still casts its spell

The Greek island has attracted poets, writers and musicians for over 8o years, from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and Jeff Koons

The Guardian - UK

He coaxes grandeur out of jaded paintings

S. Madhan, who restored 21 paintings of Raja Ravi Varma, calls the process a combo of art and science

The Hindu

Boom review – powerful, humane circus collaboration

Two young companies share acrobatic skills and stories, taking in Gen Z life and the impact of war

The Guardian - UK

Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

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Street photographer makes Manchester Miniature in novel new project

Gisela has set up scenes with miniature models including such iconic places as Salfords Lads Club and The Hacienda.

Manchester Evening News

Photographer Fatimah Hossaini: ‘In Kabul, there was so much hope and desire’

The Afghan-Iranian artist narrowly escaped from Kabul to Paris last August, as the Taliban took over. She talks about the terror of that time, why she still longs for home, and her work photographing Afghan women in exile

The Guardian - UK

If These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak

“The Clamor of Ornament,” a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and weavings to tell a complicated story, one that spans five centuries, about cultural exchange and appropriation. The curators define ornament as “embellishment, surface or structural, that can be lifted from…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pain the inspiration behind new live show at Fringe Festival

QUEER disabled artist Sarah Hopfinger shares her experience of chronic pain in a live performance piece at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The National (Scotland)

Flash tattoo event to raise money for mental health charity

A TATTOO artist is to hold a flash tattoo event to raise money for a mental health charity after he was forced to deal with his own issues during…

The National (Scotland)

'Phallic' Antony Gormley sculpture met with horror from university students

Motion published by the Imperial College Union says the sculpture may 'hurt the image and reputation of the college'

Wales Online

A takeover in Swansea and a phallic Antony Gormley – the week in art

There’s surrealism at the V&A and the queering of a Swansea gallery’s ‘heternormative’ collection, while Gormley’s latest proposed public sculpture has caused a furore

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The Antony Gormley ‘phallic’ sculpture row is an attack on modern art – and geometry

The artist says it’s legs bent at the knee. A student says it’s a giant penis. So who’s right? It doesn’t matter. This is abstract art – and it shouldn’t be condemned because of one interpretation out of many

The Hindu

Gorgosaurus skeleton sells for $6.1 million at Sotheby’s New York auction

Paleontologists say Gorgosaurus was fiercer and faster than the T-Rex, with a stronger bite of around 42,000 newtons compared to 35,000

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings next month

Artist is setting fire to his work for a new project called ‘The Currency’

The Guardian - UK

Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings to show art as ‘currency’

Artist famous for pickling dead animals in the 1990s to destroy the artworks at his London gallery

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Sculptor Anish Kapoor says India Today canned his interview for his remarks on India’s political situation

British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has alleged that the India Today magazine decided to junk his interview after he refused to remove or tone down his views on Indian society and politics. “If our journals of note are afraid, if we must censor ourselves out of fear, we are lost,” he…

The Independent UK

David Hockney works to go on sale in dedicated auction

The pieces will go under the hammer in London on September 13.

The Guardian - UK

Jeff Koons painted white with flowers in his hair: Martin Schoeller’s best photograph

‘I had four hours with him. I also took five coloured sheep along to the shoot, as well as some helium balloons with his face on them. But this simple image was stronger’

Creative Bloq

Oil painting for beginners: 5 important things to know before you get started

From techniques to equipment, this is oil painting for beginners.

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney: ‘My era was the freest time. I now realise it’s over’

The artist pops in from Normandy to talk us through a show of his great paintings, discuss his old hometown Bradford becoming City of Culture – and reveal why Harry Styles was tricky to paint

Zenger

Art Defo: Stunning Home Restored By World-Renowned Artist Damien Hirst To Fetch Over $1.2 Million

The home in Ilfracombe, a seaside resort in Devon is not just a living space, but partly a commercial opportunity too.

The Independent UK

Jeff Koons sculpture fetches more than £10 million in Ukraine charity sale

Auctioneers said the work was now a ‘monumental symbol of hope and solidarity’.

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