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'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

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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 Conversation

‘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 - UK

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 Guardian - US

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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…

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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.

Al Jazeera

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

Wallpaper

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 Independent 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

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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

The Guardian - UK

George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

The Spanish Pointer has not been seen by the public since 1972, when it sold for £30,000

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For these female photographers, the body is a tool of political dissent

The work of Liliana Maresca and Gundula Schulze Eldowy, who both lived in political turmoil, was celebrated at this year’s Artissima art fair in Turin. Discover their work here

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale to highlight ‘life in the midst of death’

Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide

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The Guardian - UK

Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010

Report says funding cuts, inflation and rise of AI contributing to median income dropping to £12,500

AAP

A whole room of Banksys as street art fills a gallery

A new work by street art superstar Bansky will feature when two of Australia's biggest street art collectors show off their finds.

The Guardian - UK

Bonhams auction house facing claims it is selling looted Roman antiquities

Third-century Roman plate and bust of Emperor Hadrian alleged to have links to man convicted of illegal dealing

Wallpaper

Louise Giovanelli pulls back the curtain on spectacle and suspense at The Hepworth Wakefield

'Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents' is at The Hepworth Wakefield from 23 November 2024 - 27 April 2025

The Guardian - UK

The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades

From Greenham to City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and confusing narrative

Wallpaper

Design Miami 2024 is alive with possibility: here are 13 things to see

Design Miami 2024 opens 4-8 December – let Wallpaper* guide you to the highlights, from dazzling installations to plump sofas and anthropomorphic sculptures

Radio France Internationale

Personal stories paint rich portrait of France's immigration through time

With the exhibition "Every Life is History", the National Museum of Immigration History in Paris brings together art and artefacts that build a picture of France's diverse modern society, a tapestry woven by immigration.

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