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Abstract erotica, Japanese giants face off and spring arrives in Oxford – the week in art

Alexis Ralaivao’s provocative paintings, Hiroshige and Hokusai in perspective and a grand survey of flowers in fine art – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

The 10 Best Nail Looks of the Week Are an Ode to Abstract Art with Sage Green Accents

The best nail looks of the week are serving serious mani inspiration.

Marie Claire

South African photographer Zanele Muholi: ‘My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in’

The artist has spent three decades changing the face of African art, and has just won the prestigious Hasselblad award. But they say the win isn’t about them – it’s for under-represented people still living with the echoes of Apartheid

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Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck

A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

The Guardian - UK

Venice Biennale risks losing EU funding over planned Russia involvement

European Commission says it will suspend €2m grant if organisers of arts festival go ahead with proposals

The Guardian - UK

Sydney Biennale 2026: politics is everywhere – but with nuance, beauty and heart

The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs

The Guardian - AU

Naples museum to allow visually impaired visitors to experience art through touch

Sansevero Chapel Museum will host day of guided tours where visitors will be able to feel marble sculptures

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Why archaeologists don’t want to open China’s 2,200-year-old emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb; the reason will shock you

Imagine a vast underground palace, brimming with treasures and guarded by an army of stone warriors, sealed tight for over two millennia. This is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, who unified the nation in 221 BC and chased immortality until he died in 210 BC. As…

The Times of India

My mother’s best advice: keep short accounts – in other words, forgive easily

She has lots of different ways to remind me to breathe. These still my thoughts, and remind me that I’m loved in a way that weighs as much as whatever heartbreak, stress or exhaustion I’m experiencing

The Guardian - UK

New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic

Latest sculpture titled ‘King of the World’ includes plaques with pointed commentary on pair’s past association

The Guardian - US

New David Hockney paintings depicting members of inner circle to go on display

Works by the Bradford-born artist will go on display at the Serpentine North Gallery.

Evening Standard

Becky the dog steals the show: John Dean’s best photograph

‘In 1976, Nottingham’s Victorian buildings were being torn down to make way for newer council housing. I’d go to the park and regularly bump into this man. To me, this picture seems very English’

The Guardian - UK

Harold ‘the Kangaroo’ Thornton: the extraordinary, forgotten life of the ‘greatest genius who ever lived’

The Australian artist was a relentless self-promoter, prolific painter and pro wrestler. He loved a tall tale – but his true story was remarkable

The Guardian - AU

David Hockney review – a 90-metre vision of nature that only looks great on your phone

The artist has stitched together 100 iPad paintings into a vast digital frieze – but the results risk undermining the pleasure in simple beauty which was his great gift to British art

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Glastonbury Festival artist unveils exhibition of works made from junk materials

Joe Rush has brought pieces including Carhenge and Glastonbury-on-Sea to the festival over decades.

The Guardian - UK

Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse review – this magnificent nag deserves a longer canter

Britain’s greatest painter of animal anatomy receives a tiny survey in a single room, while his masterpiece remains on show elsewhere in the building. Why, when he’s as good as Constable – and better than Blake?

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ILM art director shares his concept art tips

Jason Horley on the importance of studying visual language.

The Guardian - UK

Michelangelo or bust? Researcher divides experts with attribution of sculpture

Author claims archive documents show Christ the Saviour bust was one of the artist’s secret works

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'No time for grudges': artist duo's eyes set on Venice

Two artists dumped then brought back as Australia's representatives for the prestigious Venice Biennale want attention on their work, not an earlier fracas.

The Independent UK

Italy buys rare Caravaggio painting for €30 million, calling it ‘a work of exceptional importance’

The painting, dating from around 1598 depicts Maffeo Barberini, who later became Pope Urban VIII.

Evening Standard

King asked what British artwork might be ‘lurking in Australia’ in gallery tour

Soon after Tate Britain shut its doors on Tuesday, as the public flocked to the exit, staff hurriedly prepared for a visit from the King.

The Independent UK

Italy buys Caravaggio painting for 30 million euros, one of its largest payouts for a single work

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork

The Guardian - UK

Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting

Documentary accompanying Tate Britain’s exhibition of the two competing painters comes with approachable expertise and beautiful photography

Evening Standard

Southport families express alarm after ‘copycat’ teenager avoids custody

The court heard the boy described Rudakubana as a ‘hero’ with similar interests in ‘genocides and that’.

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Orchids, plums and pine cones – all bursting out of cathedral walls

St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire: The chapel here is a wonderful curiosity, thanks to its restoration by a green-fingered Victorian sculptor

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