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France pushes boat out to mark 50th anniversary of Picasso death

Fifty years after the death of Pablo Picasso in the south of France, appetite for the Spanish master seems inexhaustible.

Radio France Internationale

Powerful Ansel Adams show centers his love for nature – and the peril it’s in

San Francisco showcase brings together the photographer’s works alongside contemporary artists who build on it

The Guardian - US

Mexican artisans create 'Judas' figures for others to burn

During the “Burning of Judas” celebrations that take place every Holy Saturday in some Mexican neighborhoods, people gather to light fireworks that destroy colorful figures embodying evil

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Ken Cook obituary

Other lives: Bronze foundryman who worked collaboratively, taking another sculptor’s work and altering the surface

The Guardian - UK

Star Wars battle droid disappears from Colston statue plinth after just a few hours

Artist Simon Francis Thomas originally said the droid would occupy the plinth until April 9

Bristol Post

In AJ Paliev’s Deerfield mural, horse, rider keep ‘marching forward . . . to an unknown place’

“Walking Clock” was done while he was a student at Deerfield High School and can be seen on an AT&T building on Deerfield Road near Waukegan Road.

Chicago Sun-Times

Welsh historic treasures face 'ongoing risk' due to £65m maintenance backlog

Wales' national collection comprises five million items housed across seven museums

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Lindsey Mendick review – Brookside’s buried body is a ceramic letdown

This show, inspired by the soap’s notorious murder plotline, looks like it was a lot of fun to put together – but sadly there’s little here for the viewer

The Guardian - UK

London Sinfonietta/Kamps review – intricacies of Reich/Richter fascinate and overwhelm

The Sinfonietta performed Reich’s ensemble piece as it was originally intended – with Richter’s abstract film projected behind it

The Guardian - UK

Iconic architecture is translated into minimalist jewellery by Sofia Esquivel

Sofia Esquivel looks to familiar architectural forms for her eponymous jewellery brand

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Extraordinary treasures of Egypt's Ramses the Great go on display in Paris

The sarcophagus of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II went on display in Paris on Friday in a rare international loan. It's the star attraction in a blockbuster new exhibition that features nearly 200 ancient artefacts, some of which have never before left Egypt.

Radio France Internationale

Ai Weiwei smashes it, Steve McQueen stuns and Brookside goes ceramic – the week in art

The Chinese activist artist demolishes his sculptures, the Turner-winner memorialises Grenfell and the 90s soap opera is immortalised in Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

The Week

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané saturates Kiasma in scent, light and uncanny geometry

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s survey exhibition ‘A Leaf Shapes the Eye’ turns the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland into an immersive multisensory environment, and confronts pertinent issues about our place on earth

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Late night contemporary arts festival announces ten events across Scottish city

A CONTEMPORARY art festival has announced ten major commissions for its first iteration outside London – in Dundee.

Chronicle Live

Heartbreak as Side Gallery to close in Newcastle after more than 45 years as a film and photography hub

In a shock move, Side Gallery on Newcastle Quayside will shut its doors this weekend due to funding cuts and the cost of living crisis - but it has launched a fund-raiser with fingers crossed for better times to come

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Paint’: Give Owen Wilson’s tedious take on Bob Ross the brush-off

Seeing his narcissistic artist interact with thinly drawn characters can be like watching Alizarin Crimson dry.

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close after funding cuts and energy bills rise

Photography space that inspired Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall launches fundraising campaign with aim of reopening in 2024

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The Guardian - UK

Tapestry celebrating refuse collectors to go on show in National Portrait Gallery

Michael Armitage’s work will hang alongside high-profile figures in new gallery when NPG reopens in June

The Guardian - UK

India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection

File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies of conquest

The Week

Picasso 50 years on: can art be separated from artist?

Exhibitions across Europe and beyond honouring Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death have triggered fresh debate about the Spanish artist’s treatment of women.

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum: “We’re building a society on greed and selfishness”

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’

Belfast Live

New mural to be unveiled celebrating history of Horsey Hill in Holyland

The Horsey Hill mural celebrates the history and heritage of the popular lane in South Belfast

The Independent UK

Document drawn up by King Charles II could fetch £600,000 at auction

One of only two surviving copies of the Declaration of Breda will be offered at Sotheby’s auction on May 4.

Evening Standard

Pablo Picasso 50 years on: 10 things you need to know about the groundbreaking artist

This Saturday (April 8) marks 50 years since the death of perhaps the best-known figure in the art world: Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

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