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Notorious French gangster stands trial for helicopter jailbreak

Infamous French criminal Rédoine Faïd, who escaped prison in 2018 aboard a hijacked helicopter in a jailbreak that astonished France, went on trial in Paris on Tuesday. Faïd, dubbed the “getaway king”, faces life in prison on charges of escaping jail in an organised gang and hijacking an aircraft.

France 24

Tower Bridge sculpture made entirely from 25kg of sugar

Michelle Wibowo, an award-winning artist known for her intricate sugar and cake sculptures, spent more than 150 hours on the creation.

The Independent UK

Burning Man attendees reveal how they’re dealing with festival amid the mud and rain

Despite the festival grounds turning into a massive mud pit, ‘Burners’ did not let that stop them from creating art and partying

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Wallace Chan exhibition featuring one of world’s largest black diamonds opens

The Wheel Of Time exhibition premiered at Christie’s King Street headquarters in London.

The Independent UK

Rare handscrolls of artist Benode Behari Mukherjee on show in Kochi

Benode Behari Mukherjee's Handscrolls is an exhibition that showcases his connection to his surroundings in West Bengal. His paintings in sepia, burnt red, black and cream reflect his life at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. The show includes rare handscrolls, an early mural, self-portraits and a documentary. It is a window…

The Hindu

‘It’s not possible!’ The crazy tightropes and dangling pianos of art daredevil Catherine Yass

She slid down a skyscraper and once tried to throw a piano off a tower block roof. The former Turner nominee tells us about Flood Barrier, a new work inspired by a guillotine-like water defence

The Guardian - UK

Not conventional idol-makers, but in love with the art

While Bengaluru boasts of a rich tradition of artisans carrying forward their ancestral artistic heritage, it also has individuals from diverse backgrounds who passionately pursue these crafts. Pottery Town in Bengaluru also has artisans like Sandeep S. and Arun Kumar, who are not from the Kumbara community of traditional potters…

The Hindu

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Boy thrown from Tate Modern balcony walking with cane and relying on wheelchair less

The French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack at the tourist attraction in 2019

The Independent UK

Boy thrown from Tate Modern balcony mostly out of his wheelchair, say family

The French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack at the tourist attraction in 2019.

The Independent UK

‘It’s what Princess Diana said off-camera, not on, in the Bashir interview that inspired my play’

Jonathan Maitland worked with Martin Bashir at the BBC and ITV for over six years. With the infamous Panorama programme essentially censored, he wanted to mark her ground-breaking comments about bulimia, postnatal depression and self-harm

The Guardian - UK

‘Pauline is unique’: patron of Emin and Hirst sells off vast Hydra art collection

Pauline Karpidas, who hosted Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst on her Greek island home, to sell hundreds of works at Sotheby’s

The Guardian - UK

Sir Mark Jones put forward as interim director of British Museum

Former head of V&A has suggested Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece

The Guardian - UK

British Museum approves interim director after scandal over theft of 2,000 artefacts

An unnamed employee has been sacked and museum is taking legal action as police investigate

The Independent UK

British Museum touts Mark Jones as director after Hartwig Fischer resignation

Mr Fischer resigned as director on August 25 following an estimated 2,000 artefacts being stolen from the museum.

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The Guardian - US

Sung Neung Kyung: ‘All art is fundamentally at least a bit political’

The eccentric 79-year-old South Korean performance artist talks about his incredible career and why it’s important to mix the light with the dark

The Guardian - UK

Architects look to Warsaw for lessons on rebuilding Ukraine from rubble

An exhibition highlights the Polish city’s innovative reconstruction effort after the second world war

The Hindu

Culture Corridor outside G-20 leaders summit venue

At G-20 Summit in New Delhi, Culture Corridor-G-20 Digital Museum will showcase objects of cultural significance from G-20 countries & guest nations.

The Guardian - UK

Constable painting of alternative Hay Wain scene rediscovered

Oil on canvas sketch shows the rear of Willy Lott’s house, which appears in artist’s 1821 masterpiece

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Evening Standard

Grayson Perry channels his inner Bob Dylan with music video

The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

The Guardian - UK

A sculptural whirlwind lands in Yorkshire and butterfly wings hit the canvas – the week in art

Portraits by Freud, Rego and Himid come together and we go deep on a portrait of a Napoleonic battle – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Vegetable grenades with entrail roots: Ukrainian art cuts through at Irish biennale

Limerick’s EVA International has staged exhibitions in bars, bacon shops and even a handball alley. Will its militant spirit help it get the attention it deserves?

The Week

Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

The Conversation

Under-counting, a gendered industry, and precarious work: the challenges facing Creative Australia in supporting visual artists

When Arts Minister Tony Burke launched the bill introducing Creative Australia, the new organisation at the heart of the Revive Cultural Policy, he did so with a bold statement:

The Independent UK

Statue believed to depict Marcus Aurelius seized from Cleveland museum in looting investigation

A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Guardian - UK

We must recognise the true worth of museum collections to society

Letter: Museums are not corporate entities with disposable goods, they reflect our relationship with the world and with each other, says Dr Jenny Durrant. Plus a letter from Margaret Dickson

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