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Smithfield Market gets a new life as the Museum of London sets its plans in stone

The venue will reopen as the London Museum with double the public space

Evening Standard

MPs to ask British Museum about thefts and damage to international reputation

A Metropolitan Police investigation is under way.

The Independent UK

South Side artist Max Sansing repaints, and reimagines, 79th Street mural

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at the recently restored 79th Street ‘Culture is Power’ mural, a 50-year-old mural on a North Side church and an Oak Park piece centered on joy.

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Juan de Pareja: how Velázquez’s slave became a renowned artist in his own right

Juan de Pareja’s story sheds light on the role of slavery in creating the great works of Spain’s golden age

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened; Re/Sisters; El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon – review

Three new exhibitions encompass Eisenman’s wild and satirical paintings, poignant reactions to environmental ruin and an exquisite transformation of the Turbine Hall

The Guardian - UK

‘This was his revenge on art’: is Marcel Duchamp’s greatest work a fake?

‘Fountain’, by the father of conceptualism, is seen as a pinnacle of 20th-century art – but new evidence casts doubt on its authorship

The Guardian - UK

Red Fort to host India’s maiden art, architecture and design biennale

At Red Fort, Dec 9-15, India's 1st Art, Architecture & Design Biennale will showcase replicas of iconic Indian buildings & structures. PM Modi to inaugurate. Exhibitions, panel discussions & interactive sessions to celebrate India's built heritage & 75 yrs of independence.

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Sharon Stone says health issues slowed her acting career so she's expressing herself through paint

During the pandemic, a friend sent Sharon Stone a paint-by-numbers set to keep her busy, a gesture that has led to a new path of creative expression

The Independent UK

Max Sansing’s ‘Culture is Power’ mural is reborn on the South Side

The Chicago artist restored — and reimagined — the work that’s across from the Avalon Regal Theater after years of chipping and fading resulting from Chicago’s weather.

Chicago Sun-Times

Miniature Varanasi to be unravelled during Navaratri in Dharwad

Kartik Kattimath, an IITian, has been involved in devotional service of Goddess Durga for 15 yrs. His models of Varanasi, made of clay, thermocol & wood, will be on display at Katti Mutt in Mangalwarpet during Navaratri. Different avatars of Goddess Durga, incl. Kashika, Sankata Ji, Rangbhari, Vishalakshi-Vishwanath, will be…

The Hindu

Japan’s floating world, Britain’s lakes of paint and California’s sculpted light – the week in art

Also, a newly restored first world war masterpiece and a 400-year-old portrait of one of the world’s first professional female artists – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

‘I don’t sleep, I feel unwell’: how London’s brutal rental market is ruining tenants’ mental health

As data reveals that a fifth of tenants in the capital are turning to alcohol to cope with stress caused by the housing crisis, two people on the front line of the crisis share their stories

Evening Standard

Suspected new Banksy artwork appears near Edgware Road Underground Station

The piece, featuring a robotic arm scrawling a message, has not been claimed by the street artist

Evening Standard

OPINION - ‘Frieze has well and truly put us on the art world map’

Art fairs aren’t great places for the average punter, but Frieze is different, writes Nancy Durrant

Evening Standard

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Loyle Carner headlines exclusive Frieze afterparty at KOKO

We mixed with artists Wolfgang Tillmans and Jeremy Deller and royal bad boy Cassius Taylor

The Guardian - UK

Disassembled tents, shadow forests, and giant bats: meet the finalists of Wales’s biggest art prize

Unabashedly political, the 10th run of the Artes Mundi contest sees artists reflecting on environmental damage, contested territories, and dark fantasies against the patriarchy

The Hindu

Contemporary works of four Kerala artists on show

Mibin, Aneesh, Suneesh and Anitha explore the boundaries of human existence, Nature and tradition in their works. Through vivid and layered paintings, sculptures and installations, they challenge norms and invite viewers to explore their own thoughts.

The Hindu

Walk through floral clouds at Swiss Embassy

Renowned floral artist Philipp Von Arx creates an immersive exhibition, 'SwitzerlandIndia in Bloom', with 320kg of marigolds to celebrate 75 years of Indo-Swiss ties. A team of a dozen Indian floral and bamboo artists have worked with Philipp to create 20 large and numerous floral clouds.

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The Guardian - UK

Digging into emotion: a tour of 212 Photography Istanbul – photo essay

Highlights from Turkey’s annual international photography festival, which runs until 15 October

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court avoided disaster when a hunk of marble fell in a courtyard used by justices

The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a massive piece of marble at least two feet in length crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides

The Conversation

Photography: Real and Imagined at the NGV – a huge and dazzling exhibition that reexamines our thinking

Photography is almost 200 years old and Photography: Real and Imagined at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) can be interpreted as an attempt to make sense of its history.

The Independent UK

An Israeli jewelry designer described as 'the softest soul' has been abducted, her family says

Moran Stela Yanai's family is speaking about the Israeli woman who loved making jewelry and protecting animals

Evening Standard

What to see at this year’s Frieze art fairs, from Leilah Babirye’s queer-themed sculpture to an actual dinosaur

It’s the 20th anniversary of the art fair which helped make London one of the capitals of the contemporary art world

The Guardian - UK

‘It glows’: restorer removes queasy look from first world war painting Gassed

John Singer Sargent picture of soldiers blinded by mustard gas, the most popular at the Imperial War Museum, is seen in new light

The Guardian - AU

Maple Glider: I Get Into Trouble review – delicate songs of rage and religious trauma

The Melbourne singer-songwriter’s second album catalogues the aftershocks of her Christian upbringing – and moments of joy in between

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