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Diddy Could Spend Christmas Out of Jail

His lawyers are asking the judge to allow him to await trial confined in a three-bedroom NYC apartment.

Latin Times

Diana Cumming obituary

Other lives: Artist whose strange, expressive paintings were admired by Frank Auerbach and collected by Benjamin Britten

The Guardian - UK

Jean Rather, artist and wife of former CBS anchor Dan Rather, dies aged 89 after cancer battle

The Rathers were married for 67 years

The Independent UK

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Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be

The singing robots and 8-bit graphics are diverting and sometimes sublime, but there’s a darker story to be told in this show about technologically-assisted art before the internet

The Guardian - UK

Trump taps megadonor to lead Navy

John Phelan is a GOP megadonor who will prioritize the "America First vision," Trump said

Salon

Jury selection under way in international Russian spy plot trial

Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev have denied a charge of conspiracy to spy between August 30 2020 and February 8 2023

Evening Standard

Reward of £50,000 offered in hunt for stolen historic Scottish coins

A £50,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for a nationally important collection of early Scottish coins stolen from a renowned private…

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Anya Gallaccio: from chocolate walls to wilting flowers – the art of decline, decay and transformation

There is an empty shop on the high street of Paisley, Scotland, that has walls painted entirely in melted dark chocolate. It’s not far from the hospital in which the former Young British Artist, Turner nominee and painter of the chocolate, Anya Gallaccio, was born in 1963.

The Conversation

A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for £4.9 million – part of the evolving relationship between art and finance

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, entitled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at a jaunty angle. The hammer price? A staggering US$6.2…

The Conversation

Banksy’s Well Hung Lover to be sold with Bristol building it is painted on

Work showing man hanging from window ledge appeared in 2006 on wall of listed Georgian property

The Guardian - UK

'I miss him desperately': Shane MacGowan's widow reflects on grief one year on from The Pogues star's death

The Pogues singer died following a number of health complications, less than a month before what would have been his 66th birthday on Christmas Day

Evening Standard

Bronwyn Oliver’s Tide breaks record for Australian sculpture after selling for $1m

Monumental work which adorned upmarket Sydney restaurant Quay for almost 25 years was billed as the most valuable Australian sculpture offered for auction in the country

The Guardian - AU

Steve McQueen photography exhibition offers fresh take on history of protest in Britain

Director showcases images of the suffragettes, Kinder Scout trespasses and anti-fascist protests in London

The Guardian - UK

Liberation of abstraction embraced in troubled times

Acclaimed US painter Julie Mehretu is holding her first exhibition in the southern hemisphere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

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Nusra Latif Qureshi’s art invites us to confront colonial histories – and the messy threads that led us to the present

At the Art Gallery of New South Wales, spread across four rooms on the lowest floor of the main building, sits Nusra Latif Qureshi’s first major solo exhibition, Birds in Far Pavilions.

The Guardian - UK

‘Films were an escape – to a deeper repression’: Jarman winner Maryam Tafakory on Iranian cinema

The UK-based artist and film-maker reveals how the work that has won her the prestigious award was the result of watching 417 films made in post-revolution Iran, many of which she ‘fell in love with – and felt betrayed by’

The Guardian - US

Amy Sherald: ‘Sublimity in Black life can be seen in our ability to persist’

The portraitist, known for her paintings of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is bringing her first major museum survey to San Francisco and then New York City

The Conversation

Dakar Biennale: Senegal’s big art show shines a light on a bruised planet

One of Africa’s most important art shows, the 15th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar – also known as Dak'Art – is currently on in Senegal. A biennale is a major international exhibition held every two years. The theme for 2024 is The Wake – L’Éveil and this year…

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Breyten Breytenbach: a masterful poet, jailed for his politics, who reimagined South Africa

Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024) was an artist, poet, thinker and outspoken political activist who changed the literary landscape in South Africa. He died on 24 November in Paris, where he had first been exiled in the 1960s.

Al Jazeera

Why is US prosecutor Jack Smith dropping charges against Trump?

The federal criminal case against Trump relating to 2020 election interference will no longer go ahead.

Wallpaper

Minimal curves and skilled lines are the focal point of Kengo Kuma's Christmas trees

Kengo Kuma unveiled his two Christmas trees, each carefully designed to harmonise with their settings in two hotels he also designed: The Tokyo Edition, Toranomon and The Tokyo Edition, Ginza

Wallpaper

The rise of architects Studio Granda and their award-winning Icelandic parliament building

Meet Icelandic architecture studio Studio Granda and take a tour of their award-winning design for the country's parliament (Alþingi) and its staff

The Independent UK

Shane MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke: ‘There were days when I felt suicidal after Shane died’

Exclusive: Artist, writer and long-term partner of the late Pogues frontman speaks about her grieving process a year on from his death, and how she’s channelled that into art for her first solo exhibition

The Guardian - UK

‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director

The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions

The Guardian - UK

Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory wins the 2024 Film London Jarman award

Tafakory’s blend of reality and fiction is ‘a compelling exploration of displacement, memory and resistance’ according to the judging panel

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