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Petition rages against 'provocative' bagpiper mural on Scottish tenements

A PETITION is calling for the removal of what they call a "hostile and provocative" mural depicting a bagpiper.

The National (Scotland) · Mar 25, 2025

Ill-fated Monmouth rebellion remembered 340 years on in Somerset

Exhibition opens this week in Taunton Castle, where mass death sentences were infamously issued during Bloody Assizes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025

"The work is profoundly different" says the artist behind HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 poster campaign

Illustrator Greg Ruth on his journey to finding a style and a career

Creative Bloq · Mar 25, 2025

War Paint – Women at War review – female war artists get their moment in the spotlight

From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to conflict

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2025

Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2025

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2025

Mass letter urges arts minister to act over Venice snub

Protests against the dumping of Australia's art team for the Venice Biennale continue, with hundreds of artists and curators demanding government action.

AAP · Mar 24, 2025

The Guardian view on Manchester United’s stadium plans: put the fans first

Editorial: A £2bn new arena for Britain’s biggest football club will bring regeneration to the surrounding area. But matchgoing supporters are right to be circumspect

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2025

Travellers ‘stuck’ while other minority groups in UK progressed, says artist

Turner prize nominee Delaine Le Bas says entrenched racist attitudes to community persist in UK and Europe

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2025

What can impressionist art teach us about climate change?

The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate change – works that collectively tell the story of human enterprise at the end of the 19th century, and the role artists of the time played in unintentionally documenting the…

Radio France Internationale · Mar 23, 2025