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Artist aims to grow awareness of empire’s impact in major exhibition

EMPIRE is the theme of a new exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh ...

The National (Scotland)

Gauguin’s ‘child-wife’: in search of the muse that inspired a masterpiece

Who is the young girl in Paul Gauguin’s painting Spirit of the Dead Watching? On a trip to Tahiti, the film-maker and novelist Devika Ponnambalam finds out the troubling truth

The Guardian - UK

'Dear Manchester': The paintings that are one man's love letter to a city

"David loved the people of Manchester – whom he found warm and friendly"

Manchester Evening News

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Artist Bruno Booth uses interactive artwork to challenges ideas about life with a wheelchair

Artist Bruno Booth is challenging ideas of what it means to be disabled with an obstacle course that shows participants first-hand just how much strength and skill is involved in getting around on two wheels.

ABC News

Australiana stars melted ice cream and a Ken Done doona

The Bendigo Art Gallery has launched an exhibition of Australiana featuring Ken Done paintings alongside works by Tom Roberts and Russell Drysdale.

AAP

Online bidders go wild for Antiques Road Trip item

Natasha Raskin Sharp said it was 'the best thing that ever happened to her'

Liverpool Echo

Logan Square mural offers a nod to Puerto Rico with a 3D touch

Matthew Mederer made the brick facade of the building at 2600 W. Fullerton Ave. seem to fall away to reveal frogs inspired by the coquís of Puerto Rico.

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Souls of the south, a migration celebration and 60 years of nude men – the week in art

Black artists find resistance in found objects, an Ode to David Lammy MP and a survey of gay nude photography – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

‘After chaos, there can be calm’: Khmer Rouge survivor’s painting is a reminder of peace

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clare Arthurs shows us the painting she bought from renowned Cambodian artist Vann Nath that has become a beacon for her

The Guardian - AU

How kitsch became cool: Australiana exhibition celebrates Dame Edna, Ken Done and melted ice-creams

Australiana brings together Jenny Kee, ‘bling bling faboriginal’ gowns and Rennie Ellis photos to explore how the genre can navigate colonialism and nationalism

The Guardian - AU

Glasgow's Barrowlands and Finnieston feature on exciting episode of BBC Antiques Road Trip

The iconic east end location featured on Wednesday's (March 15) episode of the BBC's Antiques Road Trip with the experts heading to the west end of the city as well as the Finnieston Quay.

Glasgow Live

‘Like nothing else I’ve found’: readers’ favourite small galleries in the UK

Painting or sculpture, photography or crafts … our tipsters recommend lesser-known galleries and art spaces across the country

The Guardian - UK

This 100-foot mural at the Salt Shed was created by an 11-year-old Buffalo Grove girl: ‘Kind of crazy seeing it that big’

Lucy Holloway’s artwork was transformed into a mural about 20 feet high and 100 feet across as the top prize in a student art contest sponsored by the Sun-Times, WBEZ and Vocalo.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inventor of 'the most painful torture device' in history was its first victim

The Brazen Bull, a hollowed out bronze bovine sculpture, was created in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC by a man called Perilaus, who gifted it to a cruel tyrant called Phalaris

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The Independent UK

Extrapolations review: Star-studded climate change drama is both patronising and predictable

Edward Norton, Meryl Streep and Kit Harington are among the Hollywood stars in this relentlessly hectoring anthology about a world on the brink of ruin

The Guardian - AU

Should I confront my toxic friend about her bad behaviour? It’ll cause discomfort within the group

Confrontation comes at a social cost, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. You need to figure out if paying that cost will be a fair deal

ABC News

St Gertrude's Day prompts brief look at cats in art history

Felines have been featured in fine, and not-so-fine, art since long before their memes and videos dominated the internet.

The Independent UK

New Paris exhibition reveals importance of Claude Monet’s forgotten older brother

Leon Monet is the subject of a new exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris

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Wales Online

The sisters who've opened a 'slice of Paris' offering coffee, cake and much more in a Welsh village

"We've been told it's like walking into Paris or somewhere in France!"

Bangkok Post

Art of the possible

To mark International Women's Day, Central and Robinson have joined hands with eight prominent female artists to host the "ShePossible" exhibition, on view at Central@CentralwOrld until March 26. All proceeds from the online charity auction will go to the Center for Girls Foundation, the Freedom Restoration Project, and the Friend…

Liverpool Echo

Antiques Road Trip presenter makes guess about painting without seeing it

Philip called on his co-presenter for advice

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull as hell

A vase with some pears? A jug with some bananas? Cutlery? Are you kidding? Painters of still lifes have a lot to answer for – and today’s new breed would be better off tackling air fryers or discarded Deliveroo packaging

The Independent UK

Thomas Kinkade’s serene paintings hung in one of 20 American homes — as he hid a vault of tortured art

The art of Thomas Kinkade became a Nineties phenomenon as collectors and the American public clamoured for his pieces while critics rolled their eyes. But the ‘Painter of Light’ was battling personal demons as business woes and scandal plagued the empire before his death at 54 — and a new…

The Independent UK

Turner painting of Chepstow Castle to be sold at auction

The watercolour, which is said to be ‘in immaculate condition’, is being offered on the open market for the first time in nearly 100 years.

Los Angeles Times

A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters

LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. — A curiosity rises amid the wheat fields along rural Highway 33, which cuts through the town of Guthrie.

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