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Brooding, fearsome views of a blackened earth: Jungjin Lee’s epic Iceland photographs – review

The South Korean, who once followed an old man’s decade-long search for wild ginseng, has found the perfect subject – full of frothy seas, imposing rocks and smoky clouds

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

‘My biggest fear’: the artist spending three days banged up in a jail cell

Cell 72 will put a detained man on show for three full days and nights to confront spectators with the reality of confinement and take apart the gangsta romance of life inside

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Rare collection of 19th century ceramics recovered from shipwreck to go on display

A RARE collection of 19th-century ceramics recovered from a shipwreck is to go on display for the first time ...

The National (Scotland) · Jun 5, 2025

Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painter

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Charity hopes to raise nearly £3m to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in UK

New owner wants to take Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, created in Cornwall in second world war, overseas

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2025

Period scenes set mood for Impressionist masterpieces

An exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces from a Boston museum has returned to Australia after closing early in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

AAP · Jun 5, 2025

Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown

From the vicious acoustics of match days to supernatural moments in a church, this year’s best pieces reflect the emotional bedrock of this roaring, soulful city

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2025

Five Turner works to be auctioned on 250th anniversary of painter’s birth

A watercolour titled Lake Brienz, With The Setting Moon, is estimated to fetch between £600,000 and £800,000.

Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025

Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2025

He’s been hanged, stabbed and cut in galleries – now artist Carlos Martiel is being buried alive

The Afro-Latinx artist pushes his body to the extreme in performances taking on racism, colonialism and police brutality. He’s heading to Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival to be buried in sand

The Guardian - AU · Jun 4, 2025