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Gloomy depiction of veteran trauma earns art honour

Sydney artist Andrew Tomkins has won the 2023 Gallipoli Art Prize for his work Ray's Room, a depiction of his veteran uncle's refuge from the trauma of war.

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Chicago Architecture Biennial’s return will be a chance to show the world our city’s better side

The state is providing a $500,000 financial boost, and the event this fall couldn’t come at a better time to showcase our city’s world-class architecture and design — not just our problems with crime and violence.

Chicago Sun-Times

Forensic detail

A law enforcement agency may not be a very friendly workplace for LGBTI people. Indeed as an LGBTI person himself, Pol Lt Col Mongolrak Jutanont feels that he is an outcast within the force, despite being treated normally, although perhaps that’s because his father also works there.

Bangkok Post

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Children will have ‘coronation moment’ by adding artwork to giant King portrait

BBC Children In Need is looking for more than 5,000 contributions to set a world record for the most online contributions to a digital artwork.

The Independent UK

Florence Peake review – riffing and writhing topless on the canvas

Factual Actual: Ensemble is a performance about painting, and painting as performance, that feels like an open-ended ritual

The Guardian - UK

French culture minister returns 15th century art stolen by Nazis during WWII to rightful owners

Two paintings and a sculpture from the 15th century, looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 from German Jews, were returned to the heirs of the original owners on Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale

Raffaele Salvoldi stacks hundreds of marble blocks for dazzling Milan installation

For a Milan Design Week 2023 installation, Italian artist Raffaele Salvoldi teams up with marble brand Salvatori to create architectural sculptures comprising hundreds of marble blocks

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UK imposes sanctions on art collector accused of financing Hezbollah

Nazem Ahmad, who has owned works by Picasso and Warhol, suspected of laundering money for militant group

The Guardian - UK

'After years of hiding behind a mask, I can finally be who I am'

Alexandre Rezende Da Silva said since moving to the UK he feels he can be more himself

Liverpool Echo

'Art in schools is just box ticking - I want to give something back'

Angela Lock is hoping her new cafe club will encourage creativity

Manchester Evening News

Calligraphers put finishing touches on invitations to 'The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla'

The names of recipients are being added

Wales Online

Calligraphers hand-finish personalised invitations to King’s coronation

A small team of calligraphers are using traditional italic dip pens and bespoke mixed inks to write in the names of the 2,000 recipients.

The Independent UK

Ancient monument older than Egyptian pyramids sat on UK council estate

A stone surrounded by cheap railings to keep away vandals on an Edinburgh housing estate is actually an ancient monument older than the pyramids of Egypt, built around 4,000 years ago

Daily Mirror

Sick of Myself review – like-chasing narcissist is focus of online fame horror-satire

A strong lead performance can’t save this unsubtle Norwegian film about a woman who goes too far in chasing social media clout

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Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian review – Swedish mystic is no match for the great modernist

Connecting the two through their shared religious interests misunderstands the Dutch artist – and does Af Klint no favours

Evening Standard

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life at Tate Modern review - fascinating and ambitious

You can feel the tectonic plates of art history shifting under your feet

The Independent UK

Pastry artwork pits bakery against town in free speech suit

Where is the line between art, and advertising

Chicago Sun-Times

100,000 tulips: Chicago artist’s statement on redlining blooms on South Side

The tulips were planted by local residents and volunteers in October as part of a public work by Chicago artist Amanda Williams meant to redefine redlining. Six months later, they’re lighting up the previously vacant lots.

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The Guardian - UK

Joy Fleischmann obituary

Other lives: Assistant to the sculptor Arthur Fleischmann who later became an artist in her own right

The Guardian - UK

Ouija board wonder: how Hilma af Klint’s occult dabblings made her an outcast

She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer lies in the spirit world

The Independent UK

New bust of peace process mediator George Mitchell unveiled in Belfast

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sir Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern were among those who attended the ceremony at Queen’s University.

Liverpool Echo

'Best kept secret' on major road threatened with closure

'We have always managed without funding but times are becoming really difficult'

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Council to 'let the light in' with city centre art show

In 2022 the local economy made 10 times what the council intends to invest in River of Light this year

The Guardian - UK

Maria Mater Meretrix review – beautifully paced evening of drama and quiet darkness

Devised by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and soprano Anna Prohaska, this sequence of vocal and instrumental pieces explored depictions of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene with stylish verve

The Independent UK

‘Effortlessly cool’ London street signs from 1950s and ’60s to be auctioned off

The proceeds will be reinvested into the capital, Westminster City Council said.

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