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This artist uses a painterly look to create epic fantasy scenes

Antonio José Manzanedo uses colour, contrast and detail to guide the viewer's eye through his dark artworks.

Creative Bloq

The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past

Editorial: The decision to grant listed-building status to the brutalist arts complex was bold. Now artists need support to match it

The Guardian - UK

Greece signs a preliminary deal with a Belgian collector to buy WWII photos of Nazi executions

A Belgian collector who put up a series of World War II photographs showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad for online auction has signed a preliminary agreement with the Greek Culture Ministry

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Fabric of memory: the artists turning secondhand clothes into monumental art

Yin Xiuzhen builds cities from donated clothing while Chiharu Shiota weaves found objects into vast webs of thread. Now the two are exhibiting their massive, moving installations in two parallel exhibitions

The Guardian - UK

Glory for Gaudí, poems for Doig and a giant show for Beatriz González – the week in art

Catalonia’s most celebrated son kicks off his centenary in style, Derek Walcott energises his friend Doig and the Colombian great gets her first UK retrospective

The Guardian - UK

Anime and the middle ages collide in this artist's mysterious scenes

Margherita Castello blends mystery and subtle storytelling with deep, vibrant hues.

Creative Bloq

LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal

Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings

The Guardian - UK

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Design replaces art commission as fair tickets sell out

One of Australia's biggest contemporary art events has replaced a major commission for 2026, but the crowds don't mind, with day-one tickets selling out.

AAP

Isaiah Zagar death: Philadelphia’s acclaimed mosaic artist, dies aged 86

The much-loved artist created hundreds of public mosaics, many of which adorn structures along Philadelphia’s vibrant South Street corridor

The Independent UK

The Epstein files arrest of former ‘Prince’ Andrew makes Trump’s Justice Department look pathetic

ANALYSIS: The British police have taken action. Where on Earth is Pam Bondi’s DOJ? asks Holly Baxter

The Independent UK

Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints

Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed bandits

The Guardian - UK

Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn

Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure

The Guardian - AU

High-end design burrows into contemporary art fair

The Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australia's biggest events for art collectors and features an Archibald prize winner - but it's smaller than it used to be.

AAP

Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

Owner calls it ‘ludicrous’ Dissent Cafe and Bar was shut down after complaint, the first in Australia’s capital since new federal hate symbol laws

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‘OK, talk, but don’t make any sound!’: Philippe Gaulier’s illustrious students on his clowning glory

Comedians, theatre-makers and actors including Rachel Weisz, Sally Phillips and Simon Munnery recall the late teacher’s alarming lessons

The Independent UK

Police on the case: How Rome's beloved Bernini elephant sculpture lost the tip of its tusk — again

Police are investigating how one of Rome’s most beloved monuments, the elephant sculpture designed by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, lost the tip of its left tusk

Creative Bloq

How to use lore to drive your character designs

Lucas Lacerda uses a world-building approach to guide his design choices.

The Independent UK

Olives, opera and a climate-neutral goal: How a mural in Greece won ‘Best in the World’

Greece's southern city of Kalamata, long known for its olives and seaside charm, has found itself in the spotlight

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With ants, blooms and birds, museum rethinks uni smarts

From plants that smell like rotting meat to insects that absorb light, a university museum art exhibition rethinks intelligence.

Cycling Weekly

'That cycling high is everything' — Specialized launches limited-edition Tarmac SL8 artist-series

Three bike-loving artists turn Specialized’s flagship road framesets into rolling canvases

The Guardian - UK

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like?

The Guardian - UK

Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

The East German-born artist, who has died aged 41, came of age in a deeply dysfunctional landscape, using furniture to reveal schisms masked by unification

Creative Bloq

Beer brand gives Lunar New Year an abstract makeover

1664 joins forces with French artist Camille Walala.

Evening Standard

'Marooned' Byron statue to be moved into Hyde Park after huge fundraising campaign

The statue has been moved to a more visible location near Victoria Gate in Hyde Park, thanks to a grant of £230,000

The Guardian - UK

Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

Reina Sofía’s three-year rehang of works by artists from Spain and beyond is billed as a ‘critical reinterpretation’

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