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Manhole covers become collector’s items in Japan

Kyoto to sell its obsolete manhole covers in a bid to cash in on the public’s fascination with the decorated pieces

The Guardian - AU

Colourful beauty of Parthenon marbles revealed in scientific analysis

Innovative scanning techniques show painting of sculptures was potentially as intricate as their carving

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Eisenman review – Castration? Giving birth while being hanged? Nothing is too OTT here

As erudite as it is fun, this daring American painter’s electrifying retrospective proves nothing is too silly, too trashy, too raunchy or too difficult for her to attempt

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Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'

American painter Philip Guston’s (1913-1980) work was filled with creative innovation. But the paintings he is best known for are the series of cartoonish hooded figures begun in the late 1960s.

The Conversation

‘Famous then forgotten’: can Frieze rescue the legions of lost female painters?

Their work dazzled the world – but was obliterated from history. As the giant art fair Frieze opens in London, we explore its historic new section aiming to write women back into the story of art

The Guardian - UK

Porcelain sculptures of gods: Inspired by India, made in Spain

In its 70th year, Spain-born Lladró, known for its handcrafted porcelain sculptures, opens its second-largest store in India and launches two sculptures — Radha Krishna on a swing and the Ram Darbar — inspired by Hindu mythology

The Hindu

Michael Armitage print unveiled as new artwork for diplomatic buildings

The Government Art Collection has commissioned a unique limited edition print by a leading British artist every year since 2018.

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Eight-foot statue of Mahatma Gandhi unveiled in Johannesburg's Tolstoy Farm

High Commissioner of India, Prabhat Kumar, unveiled the statue to honour Gandhi's stay in South Africa. Busts of Gandhi and Mandela also commissioned by sculptor. Farm donated by friend Herman Kallenbach to sustain families struggling against pass laws. MGRO and Mohan Hira revived the derelict farm. Pravasi Bharatiya Award for…

The Hindu

Second edition of Pincodes celebrates Postal Week in Bengaluru

The Hindu

Indian art attack: Why the world’s best street artists are flocking to Delhi

Tamara Hinson heads to the capital to discover a whole new generation of artists who are forging their own path and using the city as the ultimate canvas

The Independent UK

Aashti Miller’s wall art in Thiruvananthapuram, Vellam, celebrates the city’s links to water in myriad forms

Aashti Miller wall art in Thiruvananthapuram, Vellam, celebrates the city’s links to water in myriad forms

The Hindu

Modigliani Female Portrait Tops The Sales In The Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales

Sotheby's Hong Kong Celebrated their 50th Anniversary with $170million sales

Zenger

Seven men guilty of murdering bystander Jason De Ieso

Seven men linked to the Hells Angels have been convicted of murdering innocent man Jason De Ieso but a jury could not reach a verdict on an eighth accused man.

AAP

El Anatsui at Tate Modern: ‘It took a long time for the West to realise there is contemporary art in Africa’

The Ghanaian artist talks about his Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, forging a new artistic identity and tackling the transatlantic slave trade in his work

Evening Standard

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Sizzling hunks, street smash-ups and kabuki rebels: the dazzling photography of Daidō Moriyama

The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally getting his first retrospective in the UK. ‘Yes, it’s a bit late,’ he tells our writer

The Guardian - UK

El Anatsui/Turbine Hall review – miracles in gleaming gold made from recycled rubbish

Based in Nigeria, this colossus of contemporary art has cleverly used the natural light of Tate’s Turbine Hall natural light to create a masterpiece poised somewhere between desolation and hope

Evening Standard

El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon at Tate Modern review – wonder, awe and horror

Suspense between a pure, sensory enjoyment and troubling content runs throughout this poetic installation for the latest Hyundai Commission

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Lucas’s joyful bodies express freedom – and are a riposte to Sunak’s binary Britain

The power of the British artist’s bronze, concrete and stuffed nylon bodies is to show our diverse society in all its liberating glory

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‘It’s the opposite of porn’: the astonishing art and life of Nicole Eisenman

She spent most of the 90s addicted to heroin, producing riotous work that included The Flintstones’s Wilma and Betty getting it on. Ahead of a major retrospective, the great artist looks back on a momentous 30-year career

The Guardian - UK

Henry Moore’s ‘missing’ sculpture Head on sale to the public for the first time

Not seen in public since 1952, the unique alabaster carving is expected to fetch up to £3m at auction

The Guardian - UK

How the UK’s dying high streets are being given new life by pop-up shops and galleries

When big names such as Wilko and Woolworths close up and move out, community projects can step in and fill the vacuum

The Guardian - UK

Frieze at 20 – the rebellious pop-up that changed art fairs for good

Twenty years on, London’s gathering of gallerists and collectors is big business but it began as a gamble inspired by the success of Tate Modern

The Guardian - UK

Philip Guston; Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas review – tragi-comic cartoonery

The delayed Philip Guston retrospective opens at last – and it is mordant, magnificent, unmissable. Over at the other Tate, Sarah Lucas’s repertoire of rude Britannia one-liners wears a little thin

AAP

Dancing in a world made for people six feet tall

Having spent a lifetime grappling with the idea that she doesn't fit in the world, short-statured dancer Leisa Prowd is taking to the stage to tell her story.

Evening Standard

20 years of Frieze art fair: the big tent that put London at the centre of the art world

At the first one, it rained and they thought it wouldn’t make a second year. Two decades later, the dual fair is at the heart of London’s art scene

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