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British Museum director to step down next year after eight years in charge

Hartwig Fischer was appointed with a brief to develop a masterplan for badly needed renovation

The Guardian - UK

Hartwig Fischer to step down as British Museum director next year

He has been in the post since 2016.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian folk art, mysterious totems and AI plays spot the Raphael – the week in art

Maria Prymachenko stared down Stalin and is again inspiring resistance, mysterious totems appear in Llandudno and Wakefield’s new sculpture trail

The Guardian - UK

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Fans pay tribute in London and Dublin to ‘beautiful soul’ Sinead O’Connor

Hundreds turn out to pay respects at London Irish Centre and in Dublin

Evening Standard

Spotlight on Reynolds review: a treasure trove of portraiture

Sir Joshua Reynolds “dominated the artistic life of England in his age”, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. As the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, Reynolds (1723-1792) held immense power over the country’s art establishment, and was generally “revered” by his fellow painters. Constable, for one,…

The Week

Contemporary African Photography prize 2023 winners – in pictures

A selection of work from the five winning photographers – Nadia Ettwein, Yassmin Forte, Maheder Haileselassie, Carlos Idun-Tawiah and Léonard Pongo

The Guardian - UK

More than a picture: how the work of documentary photographer Raphaela Rosella is defined by co-creation

Documentary photographers have traditionally aspired to tell other people’s stories. For 15 years, artist Raphaela Rosella and the women close to her have forged their own complex visual narratives, despite frequent interventions by the criminal justice system.

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Beauty salon twist offers new perspective for art exhibition

Christian Noelle Charles launches her exhibition What a Feeling Act 1 in Edinburgh on Friday.

The Independent UK

Here’s how you can get free or discounted passes to local museums under new Chicago Public Library program

The new digital museum program allows patrons to make reservations at up to 64 cultural institutions in the city and suburbs — more than triple the destinations the library offered through its old physical kids museum passport program.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Her talent was unmatched’: The world pays tribute to Sinead O’Connor

Irish musician is being remembered for her punk spirit, her campaigning for women’s rights, and her music, which ‘was loved around the world’

The Independent UK

‘Will we be blindfolded and led to a shallow grave?’: Alter by Kamchàtka takes immersive theatre to next level

The experimental collective bus us into unknown woodland at night, where we stumble across mysterious characters and slowly become part of a fugitive community

The Guardian - UK

Art dealer ordered to pay £111,000 over missing painting by Mexican artist

Esperanza Koren told London court she didn’t know whereabouts of Bosco Sodi’s painting

The Guardian - UK

Travel, nature, history, imagination infuse new wallpapers that help rooms tell stories

Wallpaper is back in fashion in decor, and often tells a story

The Independent UK

Art dealer told to pay £111,000 for missing ‘burnt digestive’ canvas

The missing painting was likened by a judge to a giant “burnt digestive biscuit”

Evening Standard

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Is Glowforge Aura a design fad or the future of crafting?

Cricut has competition from a new laser machine.

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'This has become a sacred alley.' The face of Emad Shargi imprisoned in Iran

A mural in Washington, D.C. depicts Americans wrongfully detained abroad and fades with time to represent passing days. Neda Sharghi's brother Emad imprisoned in Iran is one of those faces.

The National (Scotland)

Exhibition explores how art expresses ‘national character’

PROMINENT Scottish-based artists will explore dual identities in an exhibition which will open in St Andrews in October.

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard M. Barancik, last surviving member of ‘The Monuments Men’ and architect who left his mark on Chicago’s skyline

‘It’s a bittersweet moment that we knew was going to come,’ said Robert M. Edsel, an author whose book on the group was the basis for a film starring George Clooney.

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The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits review – English self-mockery without insight or depth

National Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghThis is a show stuffed with clutter and haunted by Perry’s teddy bear, with works that are too flip to land any satirical punches

Wallpaper

Shayne Oliver reveals his next chapter, Berlin exhibition ‘Mall of Anonymous’

Former Hood by Air designer Shayne Oliver announces his next project, an exhibition-cum-retail space titled ‘Mall of Anonymous’ at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin opening August 2023

The Guardian - UK

Great art surrounds Londoners – if they bother to notice it

From kaleidoscopic mosaics to modernist masterpieces, let’s open our eyes to the art hidden in plain sight

The Guardian - UK

‘No poor person decides how they get photographed’

Cortona on the Move – an international festival of photography in Tuscany – features 26 exhibitions showcasing the work of documentary photographers. Here, artistic director Paolo Woods explains his theme

The Independent UK

Jesuits confirm expulsion of priest artist and lament Vatican norms preclude further sanction

The Jesuits say a famous artist priest has been definitively expelled from the religious order for sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women

Chicago Sun-Times

Emmett Till-inspired art installation marks groundbreaking on work to restore his former Woodlawn home

The annual ice cream social to celebrate Emmett Till’s birthday also marked the opening of an interactive art installation, titled ‘Be Careful, I Always Am,’ by Chicago-born artist Germane Barnes.

The Guardian - UK

New museum on faith in England hopes to buy Henry VIII tapestry from Spain

Work described as ‘birth certificate of the C of E’ could form centrepiece of Faith Museum in County Durham

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