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Blyth artist creates stunning glass art by hand where every piece is unique

Carol Nicholson paints her artwork onto vases, candle holders, windows and other glassware to create one-of-a-kind keepsakes

Chronicle Live

'Spiderman' attacks statue at BBC HQ with hammer and chisel

A masked man has attacked a statue on the front of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London with a hammer and chisel.

The National (Scotland)

Man arrested after hammer attack on Eric Gill statue at BBC’s Broadcasting House

Man in Spider-Man mask scaled London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptor

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Masked man attacks controversial statue at BBC HQ with hammer

Metropolitan Police says specialist officers have been called to the scene

The Independent UK

Before Photoshop there was… Quantel Paintbox?

This lost '80s digital art tech still has its fans.

Creative Bloq

Man attacks statue at BBC HQ with hammer and chisel

The Metropolitan Police said specialist officers have been called to the scene in central London.

The Independent UK

Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

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From canvas to conservation as street artists illuminate Bristol Zoo's efforts

The event will feature the artistic prowess of eight renowned street artists

Bristol Post

‘How long have I been sitting here naked?’: the woozy, not-dreadful experience of being a life model

Posing nude in a public art fair, with only screens for privacy, one writer realises that what she has to offer will do just fine

The Guardian - AU

Newcastle charity given grant to help young people get involved in the creative arts

St Anthony's Youth Education Service works with over 200 young people in Walker and Byker

Chronicle Live

‘Mural of Heroes,’ version 3, honors 3 fallen Chicago firefighters

Earlier versions stood for decades in the park at Diversey, Kimball and Milwaukee avenues. South Shore artist Damon Lamar Reed created the new one.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dark corners of Scottish folklore inspire stunning new light installation in Perth city centre

The “Away with the Faeries” exhibit on Guard Vennel by award-winning artist Elisa Artesero takes its inspiration from legends of people disappearing

Daily Record

Rare desk seal owned by Sir Walter Scott fetches £13,860 at auction

A rock crystal and multi-gem set desk seal formerly owned by Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton sold for the exact same amount.

The Independent UK

The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa

Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year’s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa – and shows its vicious exploitation continues

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‘It’s like they’re time travellers’: the peculiar portrait of an artist’s parents, bought by a friend

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Anna Guthrie shows us a curious triptych that is absurd and mundane in equal measure

Liverpool Echo

Floating Earth creator says Liverpool 'gets culture in a way other cities don't'

"I think people in Liverpool sort of get culture in a way that other cities perhaps don't"

The Guardian - UK

Sublime clutter, Scottish moderns and … Gazza? – the week in art

Sarah Sze’s collected clutter of modern life, Paolozzi and Eardley join the modern canon and an imaginary show about the footballer becomes real – all in your weekly dispatch

Evening Standard

British Museum quietly drops Rosetta Stone tagline

Thousands of Egyptians say they want the Stone back

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Subway ad for Glasgow restaurant featuring Michelangelo’s David censored over nudity

Poster showed Renaissance sculpture holding slice of pizza with phrase: ‘It doesn’t get more Italian’

The Conversation

African architects challenge Venice exhibition to decolonise and start new conversations

Presented since 1979, the Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is possibly the most influential architecture exhibition in the world. For the first time, this year’s edition is curated by an African architect, Lesley Lokko. She has ensured that a strong African presence is the central feature of the…

The Week

Saint Francis of Assisi review: exhibition chronicles his presence in art

It has been argued that the Italian Renaissance was “ignited by a single spark in the form of one man”, said Harry Seymour on Air Mail: Saint Francis of Assisi. Born into wealth in Umbria around 1181, Francis experienced a vision that led him to swap his “lavish lifestyle” for…

Wales Online

Chipped cup made for Titanic and left on cluttered shelf sells for £3,200

The cup, which is missing its saucer, was made for first-class passengers

The Guardian - UK

Please do touch: Norwich Sainsbury Centre asks visitors to interact with art

Centre wants people to ‘release the power’ of living entities through interaction and lift museums out of Victorian era

The Guardian - AU

I may have fallen in love with a sex worker I am paying. Could it be real?

Does she reciprocate your feelings? Unlikely, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But the intimacy you experience can still be valuable

The Guardian - UK

Ceramicist Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation craft prize

In New York, author Fran Lebowitz presented the €50,000 award which champions crafts and celebrates their influence on fashion and design

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