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Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art

British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatch

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“It’s therapeutic because when you’re working with power tools, you’re feeling all kinds of different emotions”: Jack White returns to his furniture-making roots with a new exhibition of his ‘hardware store art’

Includes his ‘sonic bench’ you can plug a guitar into

MusicRadar

Don’t: Camille Henrot review – surreal sexual psychodrama for the digitally overwhelmed

Testicles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaning

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Two Babylonian Kings, an Egyptian Customs Official and a Corsican Hoard Lead TimeLine's 2 June Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction

HARWICH, United Kingdom, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TimeLine Auctions, the British saleroom known for museum-level antiquities, will hold its Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction on 2 June 2026. Day One has headline pieces from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and the western Mediterranean, within a wider sale spanning the Palaeolithic…

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Lucian Freud subject says late painter was a ‘perfectionist’

Sue Tilley sat for the artist three times a week for approximately nine months as he painted Sleeping By The Lion Carpet.

Evening Standard

‘I lived near a serial killer’: Steven Shearer on turning teen angst and death metal into high art

He rarely gives interviews and hates explaining his work – yet his stunning paintings, inspired by subcultures and German Romanticism, reveal a lot about this reclusive Canadian

The Guardian - UK

Benefits supervisor Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud three decades ago. Now a painting of her could fetch £35m

‘Big girls can do well,’ says Tilley, who was painted by Freud in numerous works between 1993 and 1996

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When Sue Tilley met Lucian Freud, it changed her life. Now a painting of her could fetch $47 million

Sue Tilley was working in an unemployment office when she met artist Lucian Freud

The Independent UK

‘Big girls can do well’ Lucian Freud subject says as portrait could fetch £35m

The painting, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, will go up for sale for the first time as part of Sotheby’s The Lewis Collection in June.

Evening Standard

A Year Without Summer review – Florentina Holzinger’s all-nude, orgy-filled, poo-pocalypse musical

Arts Centre Melbourne, Rising festival Exploring medical science, nature and humanity, the Austrian artist’s show is chaotic and not always coherent – and a thrilling vision of what theatre can be

The Guardian - AU

Jack White hopes fans will see him from a ‘different angle’ with first art show

White will launch his exhibition, These Thoughts May Disappear, at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery on Friday.

Evening Standard

Peak Performance’s latest collaboration makes Arc’teryx look almost sensible

The Scandinavian outdoor brand teamed up with Berlin-based artist Ruohan Wang for a playful SS26 capsule

‘Fractured’ society – but New Zealand’s young have hope across difference and distance

Isolation and falling trust is driving disconnection, though under-35s are more optimistic about social cohesion than older people, report finds

The Guardian - AU

Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time

Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum

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This digital artist uses strong contrasts and expressive brushwork to create striking atmospheric scenes

Check out the work of Raja Nandepu.

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‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on starting a new chapter in her life

Now in residence at the Madrid Prado, the author talks about its dark, inspirational Goyas, the clandestine nature of her writing – and why she finally wrote about her jailed then posthumously exonerated father

International Business Times

A Shift from Creative Silence To Cultural Voice: Ken Vann Aims To Reignite Art, Memory And Dialogue

Vann's return extends through visual art, public writing, cultural commentary, and curated conversations. He is building a wider platform committed to history, identity, political reflection, and the preservation of Black cultural memory.

The Guardian - UK

Tess Jaray obituary

Influential artist and teacher who explored architectural and pictorial space in her work

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Juan Pablo Raba Brings a Latino Reckoning to 'Dutton Ranch' - INTERVIEW

Juan Pablo Raba talks in an interview about his role of Joaquín in the new Taylor Sheridan 'Yellowstone' spin-off 'Dutton Ranch,' his biggest role in a Hollywood series.

The Guardian - UK

‘Shocking? It’s only what you see in ancient temples’: painter T Venkanna on his joyous carnivals of copulation

Penises, vaginas and breasts abound in the Indian painter’s work. As the son of a Hindu priest, he says his orgasmic scenes give us a way to consider religion

The Guardian - UK

Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists

From Paris to Mexico, Leonora Carrington’s extraordinary life is retold with intelligence and restraint, though not quite enough imagination

Creative Bloq

A lifelong passion for fantasy worlds inspires this artist's professional and personal work

Check out the work of Altered TCG artist Tristan Bideau.

The Guardian - UK

Fancy a European art break with fewer crowds? Try one of these five cities

Forget queuing at the Louvre or the Uffizi. You’ll find a fresh perspective on everything from medieval to modern art in places like Lille, Verona and Zurich

Bangkok Post

Breaking the age barrier

In Thailand, by the age of 40 people are expected to be successful, and artists are no exception. Most art projects provide funding to artists aged 35 and under. To provide opportunities to artists aged 40 and over, the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre teamed up with the Bangkok Metropolitan…

Bangkok Post

'The Spirits Of Maritime Crossing 2026' brings diversity to the Venice Biennale

'The Spirits Of Maritime Crossing 2026", which features 20 artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia and Ireland, is currently on view as one of the Collateral Events of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia at Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, Venice.

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