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Women and men were both sacrificed in ancient China – but for different reasons

Study also provides first evidence of male mass burials in China

The Independent UK

‘Was it a woman who bit off his ear?’: the wild life and serene photography of Tom Sandberg

Norway’s most celebrated photographer made his name with calm, reflective images that sit at odds with his reckless life. Friends and family remember a paradoxical man

The Guardian - UK

Seriously review – headstands, bananas and a dog watching porn reveal photography’s silly side

From a girl chewing gum to a dog watching porn, you can’t help but smile as artists including Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas make political points with bizarre humour

The Guardian - UK

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Frozen-in tenor: Italian mayor apologises over Pavarotti statue stuck in ice rink

Late singer’s widow says building ‘ugly’ ice rink around statue in Pesaro is disrespectful and ridicules his memory

The Guardian - UK

Controversial ‘zombie’ infant Jesus stolen from Nativity scene

Early reports that the infant Jesus had been beheaded are false

The Independent UK

The Marvellous Miniature Workshop review – like all your Christmasses come at once

In the BBC’s latest reality show, model-makers recreate people’s most poignant places … only teeny weeny. Despite sounding like a total reach, it is endlessly charming and incredibly emotional. Let the weeping commence

The Guardian - UK

Bridge to the past: JR to wrap Pont Neuf again, 40 years after artistic forebears

Exclusive: French artist planning to cover bridge over Seine in tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The Guardian - UK

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Covet an Italian masterpiece, but shy of the millions? How about a digital copy at supercar prices

Italian cultural officials are offering digital copies of Italian masterpieces as part of a new project to help museums raise money

The Independent UK

How to create dreamy character art in Procreate

Lux Mily shares her process for illustrating an engaging fantasy portrait with a strong colour scheme and polished details.

Creative Bloq

German president visits Spanish town of Guernica, hit by Nazi bombs in 1937

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, where Nazi bombers killed hundreds of civilians in 1937.

Radio France Internationale

Science says your kid is better at expressionist art than you are

Children can replicate Pollock paintings more accurately.

Creative Bloq

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

Editorial: Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work

The Guardian - UK

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

The Guardian - UK

Susan Loppert obituary

Other lives: Director of an ambitious programme to take artworks and performance into the Chelsea and Westminster hospital

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Creative Bloq

The Royal Albert Hall gets a modern rebirth in majestic rebrand

Heritage design gets a flexible, future-proof revamp.

The Guardian - UK

Unimportant monuments, a bass-player’s buildings and macabre Rego unleashed – the week in art

Artists turn from the heroic to the everyday, Paula Rego gives everyone a fright and a stealth wealth still life is subtly revealing – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Tate staff hold week-long strike over pay amid reports of workers using food banks

Union says ‘insulting’ below-inflation pay rises have left some employees struggling to afford rent and food

The Independent UK

Man who threw boy from Tate Modern convicted of Broadmoor Hospital attack

Jonty Bravery assaulted two nurses at high-security Broadmoor Hospital

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Evening Standard

Tate gallery attacker guilty of assaulting Broadmoor staff again

Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern.

The Guardian - UK

Courtauld to embark on £82m campus project at Somerset House in London

‘Once-in-a-generation transformation’ of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as gallery

The Guardian - UK

Secrets of the cow-skulled scarecrow: did one man’s cruel tales inspire Paula Rego’s best paintings?

When the great artist saw a shocking play by Martin McDonagh about the torture of children, she asked him for more dark stories. As the vivid, extraordinary works they triggered go on show, the playwright looks back

The Independent UK

Auctioneer accused of selling $20 million worth of fake art said to be made by Banksy and Dali

The art appraiser claims to have appraised artwork displayed in the White House and even sold the most expensive movie poster ever

The Independent UK

Town rallies behind ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ after Iowa officials target him for public art

Locals made T-shirts for ‘Manhole Michelangelo’ and started a petition to drop the charges

The Guardian - UK

‘I can frustrate you, hypnotise you, bore you’: the Jarman prize winners making archives fly

Onyeka Igwe and Morgan Quaintance have jointly scooped the £10,000 prize for artists working with moving images. They talk about manipulating their audience – and correcting history

The Guardian - AU

‘When property owners have vision’: the artists bringing a derelict hotel back from the dead

A former sailors’ haunt has been reimagined by more than 40 creatives for the closing weekend of the Fremantle biennale

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