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‘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

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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.

The Independent UK

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 - US

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 Guardian - UK

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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 Hindu

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

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry channels his inner Bob Dylan with music video

The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

Evening Standard

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 Guardian - UK

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 Week

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:

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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

Chicago Sun-Times

In Rogers Park, love notes from artist Gina Caruso to her husband Keith Lord inspire a lakefront mural

She painted it featuring Post-It Notes with images of her husband over the years to show her love, and celebrate his role in creating the Artists of the Wall Festival at Loyola Park.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The British Museum thefts have exposed a deeper problem than just security

Its next director is going to have to implement radical culture change if the institution is to remain fit for purpose in the 21st century

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Where do the items in the British Museum come from?

The British Museum houses a collection of about eight million historical and cultural artefacts from around the world.

The Conversation

Lindokuhle Sobekwa's powerful personal journey as a photographer in South Africa

Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded South Africa’s 2023 FNB Art Prize. He becomes the first artist using documentary photography as his primary medium to win the prestigious competition.

The Week

Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North review

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist renowned for recreating ancient Middle Eastern sculptures, said Elena Clavarino on Air Mail. He does this not with limestone or basalt, but using cardboard, food packaging and other modern materials. In 2018, for instance, he recreated a huge Assyrian statue of a winged bull…

The Independent UK

Artist with upcoming Glasgow exhibition credits dying father for pursuing career

Alison McWhirter’s father James offered her some words of encouragement ‘in the last week of his life’ which inspired her to refocus her career.

The Guardian - UK

‘It became a nightmare’: artist Christian Marclay on global smash The Clock – and his new work Doors

His 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation. Can Doors, a montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it? The artist reveals how lockdown and our new age of anxiety pushed him to finish it

The National (Scotland)

Mystery over change to iconic Glasgow statue as artist's involvement ruled out

A CHANGE to the iconic cone on the head of the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow was not made by famed street artist Banksy, it has been…

The Conversation

Iran's street art shows defiance, resistance and resilience

A recent rise in activism in Iran has added a new chapter to the country’s long-standing history of murals and other public art. But as the sentiments being expressed in those works have changed, the government’s view of them has shifted, too.

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