‘We won’t come again’: dazed visitors fed up with overcrowded Louvre Paris attraction in need of overhaul amid complaints of leaks, long waits, lack of signage – and too many people The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025
Woman accused of spying for Moscow questioned over plan to kidnap man Katrin Ivanova, giving evidence in UK court, pressed by prosecutor over her response to partner’s message The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025
Head to Bradford for a full Hockney day Brief letters: Salts Mill | National Science and Media Museum | Adverse school reports | The Traitors | Perfume Genius | Trump Falls The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025
Art world in shock as thieves blow up museum door to steal priceless treasure Investigators found a burnt-out car close to the museum The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2025
Dior celebrates youth and whimsy at Paris Haute Couture show Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Debicki and Jenna Ortega were among the A-listers sitting front row. The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2025
Lives Less Ordinary review – is this really a fair view of the British working class? On show in one of London’s swankier mansions, this exhibition features some great art – but betrays a clichéd view of what authentic working class expression really is The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025
Do you run away from feelings of emptiness? It’s time to face them head-on People try many things to fill the void, but respite is short-lived. Learning to tolerate and understand these emotions will give you a more solid sense of yourself The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025
The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker review – art for art’s sake This beautifully written tribute to the author’s uncle Eric, whose death revealed hundreds of hidden paintings, serves as a northern corrective to the metropolitan art world The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025
French-Israeli Holocaust survivor donates artworks to Unesco French-Israeli artist Shelomo Selinger, a survivor of nine Nazi concentration camps, has donated two of his artworks to the United Nations cultural body Unesco. The unveiling of the restored works coincides with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the International Day of Commemoration in Memory… Radio France Internationale · Jan 26, 2025
Artist rings in the Year of the Snake with striking lunar new year Johnnie Walker packaging design The vibrant illustration is packed with symbolism. Creative Bloq · Jan 26, 2025
Inside La Finca: The Exclusive Spanish Neighborhood Where Luis Miguel Bought A Mansion for His New Love The Mexican singer and the Spanish designer have taken the next step in their romance with an expensive gift. Latin Times · Jan 26, 2025
No, the Southport killer’s motive is not ‘difficult to comprehend’. It’s called misogyny Axel Rudakubana didn’t target boy scouts. He targeted women and girls because they were vulnerable and easy prey The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025
Rediscovered Munch painting with ‘intriguing mystery’ to go on display in UK for first time Striking image will be unveiled at National Portrait Gallery in March, as part of a major exhibition of the Norwegian master’s portraits The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025
Environment secretary lambasts HS2’s £100m bat shelter Steve Reed says plans for 1km curved structure to protect bats from high-speed railway are ‘batshit crazy’ The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2025
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025 The British Museum says it is partly closed after a fired employee shut down IT systems The British Museum is partially closed to the public after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems
The Guardian - US · Jan 25, 2025 Anne Frank exhibit opening in New York amid US debate over antisemitism First full-scale replica of Frank’s attic annexe goes on show next week on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2025 ‘When a woman needs more than ever to take care of herself, she is pulled away in two directions’: Diana Evans on the ‘sandwich generation’ Work has always been central to the novelist’s existence. So what happened when she found herself caring for her elderly mother and two children – and suddenly unable to write?
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2025 Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025 Man says he was behind some of the viral googly eyes on public art in Oregon A man in the central Oregon city of Bend says he was responsible for some of the googly eyes placed on sculptures there
International Business Times · Jan 25, 2025 Anne Frank Annex Replica Opens Holocaust Story To New Generation A replica of the annex where Jewish schoolgirl Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis will open in New York next week, targeting a new generation with the lessons of the Holocaust.
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025 Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad's golden spike The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in Alaska after entities combined to win an action for the 14-karat gold spike Friday
Creative Bloq · Jan 24, 2025 This agency's wild logo designs are a celebration of London's eclectic creative talent Wieden+Kennedy gets a rebrand from local artists and makers.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2025 Pop hits, ordinary wonders and perfumed parables – the week in art Sixties art stars reconsidered, 70 years of working-class British life on camera and a multisensory meditation on Indonesian art – all in your weekly dispatch
The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2025 Brasil! Brasil! review – no fun and no funk in this baffling morass of mediocrity Brazil produces incredible artists, too few of whom appear in this deluded show, which sadly fails to live up to its own hyperbolic guff
The Conversation · Jan 24, 2025 Letizia Battaglia’s photos captured real Sicilian life during the heightened mafia violence of the 1980s and 90s When we look at pictures of conflict, violence and collective trauma we might expect to see only the horrors of maimed bodies and the crying souls of the victims. But in the photographs of one of Italy’s most cherished photographers, Letizia Battaglia, you do not see glamorised shots of the…