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Dog-faced demons and a pitchforked penis: the world’s most terrifying artworks

Sinners being eaten alive by serpents, the antichrist seizing power on Earth, a bound penis menaced by a goat-footed devil … in a Halloween special, we look at some devilish masterpieces. Warning: graphic content

The Guardian - UK

‘Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister’ chronicles the artist’s life

Marc Kristal’s new biography of artist Pauline Boty brings an era to life in its celebration of her tragically short but highly influential career

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An exhibition at Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza reframes a historical space

“Forever is Now” at the Pyramids of Giza is the third iteration of the exhibition and features site-specific installations by 14 artists

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Martha Freud and Repossi unite for sculptural, raw and organic artworks

Martha Freud is inspired by Repossi’s Antifer collection for a new selection of works

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Artists respond to global crisis with hope, resistance

Dozens of artist from around the world will unite in response to times of global crisis with an exhibition showcasing expressions of hope, joy and resistance.

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Setting the trap: Trnk and Canoa Lab investigate traditional Spanish pottery

Trnk and Canoa Lab explore Alfarería de Trampa, the centuries' old Valencian tradition best known for the Botija Trampa, a bottle designed with innumerable spouts, resulting in spilled water rather than quenched thirst

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Hidden women: Madrid show puts forgotten artists in the picture

Maestras explores how talented female artists won recognition in their lifetimes, only to find their works written out of the canon

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Roger Owen obituary

Other lives: Art teacher and potter whose work was shown in galleries across the south-west of England

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Bust of John Gordon could fetch £2.5m – if Highland town agrees to sale

Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projects

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Harvey obituary

Other lives: Co-founder and former chief executive of Acme Studios, a provider of affordable spaces for artists

The Guardian - UK

Parisian glamour (and snails) headed to Bendigo

The latest international exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery brings Parisian paintings and fashion to the Victorian goldfields.

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The longer you look, the darker it gets: reassessing Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss

Is the woman unconscious? Could the man’s embrace be violent? A new film invites us to challenge our preconceptions about the gilded masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

Stanley Spencer’s ‘village in heaven’: an arty weekend in Cookham, Berkshire

The bucolic banks of the Thames, dotted with fine pubs and historic locations, make a picturesque setting for exploring the life and times of one of England’s greatest artists

The Guardian - UK

‘This is our reality’: the Ukrainian artist putting bomb-blasted roads in a gallery

Some artists use paintbrushes. Zhanna Kadyrova uses an AK-47. And for her latest show, she braved unexploded mines to turn the shrapnel-hit roads of a formerly occupied town into astonishing art

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The Independent UK

Che Guevara’s lucky Irish cigar lighter among historical items up for auction

Other items include a bible Michael Collins had when he was assassinated, a newly discovered copy of a speech by Wolfe Tone and Phil Lynott’s guitar.

The Conversation

Shepherd Ndudzo's celebrated sculptures tell an untold history of southern African art

The work of award-winning Zimbabwe-born sculptor Shepherd Ndudzo is instantly recognisable. Fluid, elongated black bodies and body parts flow from white rock in a typical work. The bodies are dancing or praying, holding hands or reaching out.

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Stuart Duffin's latest exhibition speaks to the tragedy in Gaza

Stuart Duffin RSA (master printmaker and member of the Royal Scottish Academy) has every right to hold very mixed feelings about A Redder Sun, his…

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Typist Artist Pirate King review: warm-hearted portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss

Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a film

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The Guardian - UK

No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes

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Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art

Seed work was first practised by enslaved African women in Antigua and Barbuda. With few artisans left, efforts are under way to preserve it in a way that empowers younger generations

Chicago Sun-Times

Southeast Side mural pays tribute to hip-hop’s Public Enemy

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: My mother was spat on in the street in Hendon because my father wasn't white

Yesterday I was in Brooklyn, I went to see my installation, Exorcism of the last painting I ever made, at the Faurschou Foundation.

Chicago Sun-Times

Humboldt Park artist Stef Skills loves Public Enemy and paid tribute to the hip-hop icons with a mural

The rap group “baptized me into hip-hop music and culture,” the artist says, with lyrics that helped instill in her “the spirit of activism and being able to question things.”

The Hindu

Ayroor panchayat makes Kathakali part of school routine for kids

Ayroor Grama Panchayat in Pathanamthitta, renowned for its Kathakali legacy, is providing children a chance to learn the classical art form as part of their school routine. 200 children will receive free training on Kathakali mudras for six months, with four trained artistes appointed to lead the sessions. The local…

The Guardian - UK

Hockney bounces back, a Myanmar blockbuster and fantasy in the library – the week in art

Hockney’s life and art, the crises of modern Myanmar, new works by Yinka Shonibare, and a celebration of the many worlds of fantasy

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